You Used Ruby to Write WHAT?!
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The last I read from Zed, he was railing against the powers that be in the Rails community. And the impression that I got was that he was rather under-employed and broke. Turns out, Zed's doing rather well for himself working as a VP at an investment bank and writing for CIO.com. Wow.
Anyway, nice write up of the strengths and limitations of Ruby the language, the MRI and JRuby.
Biggest irony is that he's using Rails on his new project even though he said he didn't want anything to do with RoR and 'left' it for Factor.
To be fair, Zed also said in subsequent interviews that he'd still use Ruby to make money, but he wouldn't use for hobby coding or new, envelope pushing projects.
Zed hits the nail on the head when he highlights the passion for Ruby among new programmers. I just started working with Rails, and everyone I've been learning from is infatuated with Ruby (and Rails, to some extent).
On a different note, I suspect he might be bipolar.
http://www.helpguide.org/mental/bipolar_disorder_symptoms_tr...
"The truth is: Any language that's Turing Complete and supports enough language features can solve any problem."
Really? Wow, thanks Zed.