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I'd pay more attention to those frameworks if you'd say why they're interesting. I consider python/ruby/perl to be sibling languages. You only really need to kn
by grayrest 17y ago
I'd pay more attention to those frameworks if you'd say why they're interesting. I consider python/ruby/perl to be sibling languages. You only really need to know one as your primary language and then steal ideas from the other two. Node is interesting because it solves a problem: efficient long polling setup in a language I know.
Why Ruby over Perl then? The ruby peoples have great taste in designing mini languages: e.g. sass is amazing in a why-couldn't-I-think-of-that way so I pay attention to them. The best thing I know of coming out of the Perl community is the people (Michael Bayer is my hacking hero for SQLAlchemy).
- mst 17y agoSQLAlchemy's nice - wherever DBIx::Class and SQLAlchemy developers are gathered at the same conference, there will be beer, and there will probably be cursing other ORMs for not understanding what a database in. Later in the night, somebody will say "we should all use ActiveRecord instead - because it unlocks all the power of MyISAM on MySQL 3.23" and then we'll giggle incoherently for a few minutes before getting another round of drinks in. SASS is absolutely beautiful. I think Perl5 with Devel::Declare is a better internal DSL host than ruby though - consider MooseX::Declare - you simply can't bend the ruby compiler sufficiently to do something like that to my knowledge (or Piers Cawley and others wouldn't have moved from ruby back to Perl5, I don't think ...)