A Sun Employee Likes Rails Too!!
It’s been a while since I’ve last posted here… Sorry about that, I’ve been programming away on a rails application. I have to say that I love this framework. I am actually having fun programming again. Seems like I’m not the only one that’s caught the train:
From comments section of this site:
Roman Strolb, Sun Microsystems:
Btw, I also like Ruby on Rails… it’s a nice web framework. Yes, I’m a Sun employee and like Ruby on Rails
It pretty cool that a Sun guy would admit this. Now if they would just admit that JSF is crap and move in the Rails direction, the Java world would be a much better place. 
Roman Strobl wrote:
Hi, do you know what does Ruby on Rails need to really get into the mainstream? One of the large IT companies standing behind it.
Btw, I really think that frameworks such as JSF and even Java EE have their place on the world. Ruby on Rails solves very well the problem of creating web applications with a database backend. Being a long time PHP programmer, I realize how much cleaner the code can be with Ruby. And I really enjoyed building simple web applications with Rails. But it’s not a solution for all the world’s problems, sometimes visual component-based development is something your team needs and sometimes you need to build really large systems which scale, are redundant and integrate with legacy systems - and are heavily transactional. Ruby on Rails needs to be ready for such problems if it wants to replace Java in the enterprises.
Did you notice that the Java world is being influenced by Ruby on Rails? Some of the most popular frameworks started to support continuations, there’s a lot of simplification going on with annotations and convention over configuration - which is a really good thing.
Did you also notice that Sun is adding support for scripting languages? It started by JSR 223 which enables scripting languages to be tightly integrated into the Java platform and it will continue with JDK 7 with the planned special bytecode for dynamic languages running on top of the JVM.
I am looking forward to see more scripting languages on Java platform and I hope that one day I will be able to use the powerfull frameworks and libraries from the Java world with a scripting language such as Ruby. This combination would be just very cool.
Posted on 28-Feb-06 at 11:19 am | Permalink
Tony wrote:
Hmm, I missed the part where Rails uses continuations:
Some of the most popular frameworks started to support continuations
Cocoon has had continuations since before Rails was a twinkle in DHH’s eye.
Posted on 28-Feb-06 at 5:21 pm | Permalink
Roman Strobl wrote:
Interesting… I didn’t know that. Anyway Ruby on Rails is the framework that made people aware of continuations, I think. David Heinemeier Hannson is a very good evangelist.
Posted on 01-Mar-06 at 10:38 am | Permalink
Shawn Oster wrote:
Actually that’s *not* what is suprising. What is suprising is that he hasn’t been set on fire by McNeilly.
I happen to live 10 minutes away from a major Sun campus and there are a *huge* amount of people that I’ve known that have worked there that a) highly dislike Java and b) love either .NET or Ruby (or like both, like me).
Posted on 28-Mar-06 at 11:28 am | Permalink