[ale] Ruby vs C, a non-technical chat

[James Sumners]

On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 1:10 AM, Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com>
wrote:

> > Even doing scripting for just server stuff, Node is far faster than
> > Ruby in almost every case --
> >
> http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64/compare.php?lang=v8&lang2=yarv
>
>
> Ruby != Rails.
>
> Development speed != Run speed.
>
> So I stand by my original statement that the person good enough at
> Rails to bring up apps quickly will be in demand.
>
> By the way, I'm not making a statement about the development speed of
> Nod.js or Angular.js etc: I'm not familiar enough to make such a
> statement. I do know that Rails develops lightning fast.


I was specifically comparing the default runtime environments for both
JavaScript and Ruby. Even a poorly written JS application is going to start
and execute quicker than an equivalent Ruby application (despite its level
of "good").

I never mentioned any frameworks on top of the base environment for JS. I
certainly didn't bring Angular into the conversation.


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