Lorenzo E. Danielsson wrote:
Ruby is slow for some tasks. Looking at your application list, I doubt
that will affect you much. But no, you would not choose Ruby for Quake
5.
I don’t need Quake 5, and I don’t want it ![:slight_smile: :slight_smile:](/images/emoji/twitter/slight_smile.png?v=6)
The best thing to do is to give it a test. I find that Gtk and Qt
applications written in Ruby start up slower than there C/C++
counterparts but don’t necessarily run much slower. But I don’t have
much experience with GUI programming.
Consider execution speed vs. development speed. In many cases you need
to complete an application in a fairly short time. Ruby is good at that.
Sometimes you need applications that run at a high speed. Ruby is not so
good at that.
The applications you listed usually spend most of their time displaying
a form and waiting for the user to complete forms, etc. I cannot imagine
that Ruby is slower at waiting for a user than .
The server side is where you could start to run into performance issues,
at least if you have a large number of people connecting to the
applications simultaneously. You’d have to write some small test cases,
emulate the expected load and see how well Ruby degrades.
I don’t need a fast startup. I need fast operations clicking buttons
thath add products to a ticket to sell. Don’t have to wait 20 seconds to
retrieve 1000 clients from a SQL database or to change some parameters
on a products table with 20000 records, etc…
A Disco for example, need to do this things fast. The startup speed
is’nt a problem. For this projects I don’t need many users at the same
time (10?, 20? for example)
Portable toolkits: Qt, Gtk2, Tk, Swing (if you use JRuby), probably
others.
I’m checking the posible options, if I can’t find a portable toolkit,
and a binding updated, then, I will need to develop over web if I choose
Ruby as option, but, wxRuby for example, seems to be updated.
IRC is good. This list is good. Google is good.
Perfect ![:slight_smile: :slight_smile:](/images/emoji/twitter/slight_smile.png?v=6)
One last thing: you stated that you need to write these applications for
your job. As much as I love Ruby and would encourage you to learn it
because it makes life so damn sweet, what is your time-frame? Is this
the right time to learn a new language? If time is of the essence it
might be advisable to stick to what you already know.
The time is not a problem for this projects. The time will be essential
for update, upgrade or add features this projects, but then, I think we
will have experience for this. Otherwise, we have experience in other
languajes, and I hope the “jump” will not much difficult.
Just my thoughts,
Lorenzo
Thanks a lot Lorenzo.