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

[Michael Trausch]

Well, that'd be two of us.

All the functionality needed is built into the framework there, the managed program shouldn't be more than a few hundred KB...

Unless they reimplemented everything, or use their own library instead of the framework, but I couldn't say without seeing the compiled assemblies they created. Of course if they are converting async to sync, that will add a little overhead code, but not that much.

And just as with Python or ruby, it's difficult to prove the security of a program running in the CLR without first proving the security of the VM and the libraries. At least it JITs a function the first time it is executed instead of waiting until it has decided that it is "hot".

Sent from my iPad

> On Aug 6, 2015, at 8:40 AM, Chris Fowler <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> wrote:
> 
> I've been working on a service that runs in Windows to provide information back to a management device.  In the field I have no access to the server it is running on so I instructed them to add a SOAP service in the agent so I could check status, send commands, etc.  I also told them to write a simple test program.  Their test program was huge.  Communications to the agent was async.  Their test was written as sync.  Thread for read, write, etc.  I could not understand why they could not just do a connect,read, write, read,write,...,., close.  It was written in C#.  I ran it on my device using mono.