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

[James Sumners]

On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 11:00 AM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:

> If I write a RoR app
> today and use a bunch of gems, if I want to then share that development
> with another group it's just... hard!  Every system needs to have the
> exact same environment.  And then god help you if you need to pick up a
> system a year later; everything has moved on and you can't get the old
> gems anymore and the new gems have changed something fundamental such
> that your app doesn't work...  :-(
>
> So you're basically in a situation where you're constantly using
> bleeding-edge code because if you don't (and don't keep up) you get
> stuck.
>
> But this has nothing to do with Ruby as a language.
>

That was the biggest problem with the application. But it doesn't help
having to deal with all of that on top of the language. Which is why I have
limited my comments strictly to the language.


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