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

[James Sumners]

I haven't spent any time with Go, myself. But it's worth mentioning that Go
compiles to a native binary. Quite frankly, it's probably better to learn
Go than C if that's a requirement for your end result.

Same thing with Swift. I have a little exposure to it (just playing
around), and quite like it. It seems to have taken the best parts from a
lot of languages and put them together in a nice way. I'm very pleased that
it was open sourced, and look forward to seeing where that leads.

On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 8:08 AM, Darrell Golliher <darrell at golliher.net>
wrote:

> Leam,  you mentioned fun in your criteria.  I like that.    The most fun
> I’ve had programming lately has been
> in Go.   pro-tip for googling it is is to use “golang”
> https://golang.org     I’ve done basic, pascal, modular-2, assembly, C,
> C++, Perl, Python, Javascript and probably a few others I’ve forgotten.
> Go rocks.
>
> I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about it from a career path
> perspective, but there are some signs it could prove
> marketable, maybe.    Docker is built with it for example.  Digital Ocean
> seems to use it a lot too.
> Here’s a list of companies..  https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/GoUsers
>
> Maybe it’s never be more than a niche language — I can’t predict the
> future on that one.  I hear good things about Rust and with Apple’s Swift
> being open sourced it has a shot a being generally useful too.
> Javascript has even gotten more interesting with the rise of the node,
> express and angular (aka. MEAN stack when you add mongoldb).
>
> Anyway.. I digress.  I was trying to plug Go. :-)
>
> cheers,
>
> Darrell
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> http://golliher.net
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> On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 7:18 AM, Leam Hall <leamhall at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 08/05/15 23:44, Michael B. Trausch wrote:
>> > On Wed, 2015-08-05 at 12:45 -0400, DJ-Pfulio wrote:
>> >> RoR work is also highly sought these days.
>> >
>> > I don't know for the life of me why. A server system written in C or
>> > C++ runs just as fast and if written correctly consumes far less
>> > resources. And such programmers seem to actually care about upgrades
>> > working without a problem. After fighting with several Rails apps over
>> > problems such as runaway resource consumption and the inability to
>> > perform upgrades as per directions supplied by the programmer, I gave
>> up
>> > on allowing that crap on my infrastructure a long time ago.
>>
>> Good morning Michael! I always look forward to your programming
>> perspectives.
>>
>> One of the reasons I stayed away from Ruby for a long time was their
>> website. I'm assuming it was in Ruby/RoR and it was often too slow to
>> use.
>>
>> The niche I'm having fun with at the moment is learning OOP and Testing
>> while munging XML, JSON, and user input. It's amazing how many "tools"
>> IT shops buy that don't talk to each other. If I can solve some of that
>> it's a win. While Ruby isn't the most performant in terms of memory
>> usage and CPU cycles burned, it is helping me solve problems. I have
>> less time with the language than I did with C or Python, but I can do
>> more. I can also enjoy life a little, which is a big win as I get older.
>>
>> Maybe I've just gotten to be a little better at programming and am
>> picking Ruby up faster. I don't know. I am having fun and getting things
>> done. Life would be ideal if I could quit looking sideways at C or Go.
>> "Performance envy"? Maybe. I'd like to be content but every time I
>> decide to see what other opportunities are available they ask for things
>> I don't have.
>>
>> Leam
>>
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