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Twitter and Rails brouhahaI am a bit reluctant to post about this, since many of the issues involved are not programming language related. I hope we can manage to avoid discussing these issues here - there are plenty of better places to discuss them. Still, many issues that are raised in this multi-blog discussion about the performance of Rails, and Ruby in general, may be of interest from a programming language perspective. More important, in my opinion, is to put this discussion in the context of the recent revival of frameworks. We discussed many of the recent interesting libraries and frameworks. Let me point out that not only are we reaching a point where languages and frameworks are judged together (with "Ruby on Rails" a classic example), but more and more libraries make use of advanced programming techniques that were considered arcane and esoteric not long ago (e.g., jQuery use of closures, metaprogramming and code generation etc.) This is an important development, and an interesting area to keep an eye on. |
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