On Thu, 05 Apr 2012 14:53:27 -0700, K. Peachey p858snake@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 7:45 AM, Chris McMahon cmcmahon@wikimedia.org wrote:
For various reasons, I think the best language for this project is Ruby. I realize that is a controversial choice, and I would like to explain my reasoning. First let me address what I think will be the most serious objections:
** Ruby gems are incompatible with Debian/Ubuntu apt packaging, making it difficult or impossible to maintain Ruby code in production.
You will want to talk to OPs, AFAIK they have desires to not see any more ruby on the cluster, since very little amount of the dev community known it and/or how to maintain.
We really need to start surveying real statistics on what programming languages community members know. I've seen this assertion waved around again and again, but don't see where it originates from, besides the very unreliable fact that we just don't talk much about ruby around here.
I for one know ruby. And frankly ruby isn't like our other issue. Ruby is nothing like how hard OCaml would be to learn and maintain.
We really should beat down this notion that anything written in ruby should be avoided. I don't like how we reject the possibility of using well written existing open-source projects simply because they were written using ruby. It's almost as bad as NIH.