Re: [Rails] Re: Ruby adoption statistics

OH You should see the smiles on Java devs faces when they switch to Ruby.

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If there's a dying language of the two, I'd guess it was Java.

On Oct 9, 2011, at 4:14 PM, Robert Walker <lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:

> Andrew wrote in post #1025635:
>> However, my
>> co-worker mentioned that he thinks if we are switching, we should switch
>> to
>> Java because Ruby is a dying language.
>>
>> I just about fell out of my seat. *Dying* language? Far from it! Every
>> company I know is deploying Ruby applications!
>
> So you should switch to Java because Ruby is a "dying language?" To a
> language invented by a company that is already dead, Sun Microsystems.
> And, who's creator abandoned the company when it was taken over by
> Oracle. This guy is recommending a switch to Oracle, who's main product
> is an old severely aging relational database that costs a small fortune
> to deploy and hasn't seen significant changes in decades. Do you really
> think that Java is in a great place right now in the hands of the likes
> of Oracle? A company who's primary interest is profit, attained by
> gouging large enterprises for everything they can possibly get a way
> with.
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