Comments on: Ruby on Rails: One Thumb Up, One Thumb Down http://enfranchisedmind.com/blog/posts/ruby-on-rails-one-thumb-up-one-thumb-down/ programming, politics, & other religious issues Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:16:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Ruby is the Future | Enfranchised Mind http://enfranchisedmind.com/blog/posts/ruby-on-rails-one-thumb-up-one-thumb-down/#comment-34314 Ruby is the Future | Enfranchised Mind Wed, 01 Apr 2009 18:16:17 +0000 http://enfranchisedmind.com/blog/archive/2006/06/25/143#comment-34314 [...] a whole lifetime of ranting against it (cite, cite, cite, cite), I finally have to eat my words, come out, and say it: Ruby is the language of [...] [...] a whole lifetime of ranting against it (cite, cite, cite, cite), I finally have to eat my words, come out, and say it: Ruby is the language of [...]

]]> By: bhurt-aw http://enfranchisedmind.com/blog/posts/ruby-on-rails-one-thumb-up-one-thumb-down/#comment-372 bhurt-aw Tue, 11 Jul 2006 21:48:21 +0000 http://enfranchisedmind.com/blog/archive/2006/06/25/143#comment-372 All engineering is tradeoffs. It's a lot easier to get conceptual cleanliness if you can take other aspects- like performance- out of the equation, i.e. it doesn't matter how much performance suffers to get that cleanliness. And performance suffers- take a look at Ruby's performance results on <a HREF="http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/debian/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=all" rel="nofollow">The Great Computer Language Shootout</a>. Ocaml weighs in at 64% the speed of C, Ruby 5%. Ocaml is one of the fastest non-C-like languages (i.e. not including C, C++, or D). Ruby's performance is down with SmallTalk and PHP, it's slower than Perl, it's slower than TCL. All engineering is tradeoffs. It’s a lot easier to get conceptual cleanliness if you can take other aspects- like performance- out of the equation, i.e. it doesn’t matter how much performance suffers to get that cleanliness.

And performance suffers- take a look at Ruby’s performance results on The Great Computer Language Shootout. Ocaml weighs in at 64% the speed of C, Ruby 5%. Ocaml is one of the fastest non-C-like languages (i.e. not including C, C++, or D). Ruby’s performance is down with SmallTalk and PHP, it’s slower than Perl, it’s slower than TCL.

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