Don’t get me wrong. I use ruby as my default language when possible. I love JRuby in a way that’s illegal in most states. But there are…issues. There are with any language and the associated environment. These are the ones that bug the crap out of me. Ruby is slow. Let’s get this one out of the way right away. Ruby (at least the MRI 1.8.x implementation) is, for many things, slow. Sometimes not much slower. Sometimes (e.g., numerics) a hell of a lot slower. Now, there’s nothing necessarily wrong with that. For what I do, MRI Ruby is usually…
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2011-01-13 / Bill Dueber