> Ruby standalone is nothing its power comes when you put Rails on top of it while Java standalone still is powerful concurrent, class-based, object-oriented la

> Ruby standalone is nothing its power comes when you put Rails on top of it while Java standalone still is powerful concurrent, class-based, object-oriented language Thats seems like a bit of a loaded sentence. I certainly don't agree with it. Native java offers speed and strong static typing (i.e compiler/ide support). But native ruby is immensely expressive. If anything too much so.