Sheesh. Listen, I'm a rubyist as much as anyone and have a number of commercial ruby/rails projects under my belt, but I've also done Java for more than a decad

Sheesh. Listen, I'm a rubyist as much as anyone and have a number of commercial ruby/rails projects under my belt, but I've also done Java for more than a decade. This willingness by rubyists to piss on Java is quite silly. Java as a language can be frustrating at times, but it's really not that bad and the platform itself is solid. I manage a number of applications in Java which would be an absolute nightmare to write in ruby, simply because of their complexity and size. In large systems, Java excels.