Do everything in Java…

[ketmar via Digitalmars-d]

On Thu, 18 Dec 2014 08:17:47 +0000
Paulo  Pinto via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:

> On Wednesday, 17 December 2014 at 22:24:09 UTC, Sean Kelly wrote:
> > On Wednesday, 17 December 2014 at 17:09:34 UTC, Andrei
> > Alexandrescu wrote:
> >> On 12/4/14 6:39 PM, deadalnix wrote:
> >>> On Thursday, 4 December 2014 at 13:48:04 UTC, Russel Winder 
> >>> via
> >>> Digitalmars-d wrote:
> >>>> It's an argument for Java over Python specifically but a bit 
> >>>> more
> >>>> general in reality. This stood out for me:
> >>>>
> >>>> !…other languages like D and Go are too new to bet my work 
> >>>> on."
> >>>>
> >>>> http://www.teamten.com/lawrence/writings/java-for-everything.html
> >>>
> >>> Also relevant:
> >>> http://wiki.jetbrains.net/intellij/Developing_and_running_a_Java_EE_Hello_World_application
> >>
> >> Very interesting. Even after all IDE details are factored out, 
> >> the code is quite convoluted. No wonder Ruby on Rails and 
> >> friends are so attractive by comparison. -- Andrei
> >
> > Hah.  I tried RoR once.  I couldn't get the environment set up
> > and running and eventually just gave up.
> 
> 
> After learning what RoR was about, I lost my interest.
> 
> I had been there once back in the early .COM days in a startup 
> that did, lets call it, TCL on Rails. It was inspired by 
> AOLserver for those who remember it.
> 
> Eventually scaling problems made us consider other options, then 
> since we were in a position to have access to early versions of 
> .NET, the decision was made to adopt it.
> 
> Almost everything that RoR 1.0 was doing, our TCL framework did 
> as well. Specially the whole ActiveRecord thing.
> 
> We just weren't famous.

no, you just didn't chose the language that alot of hipsters like.

p.s. Tcl is nice. it's LISP told without brackets. ;-)
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