On Sun, 11 Jun 2006 11:09:14 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/OpenSourceProjects
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> Very quick growth for such a new framework. I heard it was even better than
> PHP (a friend from the EFSF).
Better is subjective. I don't like PHP for a number of reasons (no strict
type checking (hell, almost no types at all), no way to force apps to only
use declared variables, etc..). Ruby is a fantastic language, and I'll be
much more inclined to use it when it can interoperate with other languages
(such as with Ruby.NET or IronRuby).
Rails is a different story, though. It's true that Rails gives you a lot
of power, but it does so by forcing you to follow their methodology.
Sometimes that's good, but sometimes it's bad. Rails certainly has some
nice features, and I expect many of those to be adopted by other languages
and frameworks like Java and .NET, but it's really such a niche player at
this point due to lack of industry support.
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