Pros/Cons of Turbogears/Rails?

[Bruno Desthuilliers]

Paul Boddie wrote:
> Ray wrote:
(snip)
>> We're a Java shop so
>> our developers are trained in Java, Struts, Tomcat, etc. Any switch to
>> a dynamic language will be a huge change. However it baffles me that
>> they are open to at least a PoC in Rails. but when I suggested Python,
>> they went: "nah we're not interested in Python. Rails it is."
>>
>> *shrugs* whatever it is, those guys are doing something right.
> 
> Making the Java people feel like they're doing something wrong, I
> guess. And perhaps the Rails people realised that by giving those
> people who lack direction, motivation, conviction or a sense of purpose
> or control something to gravitate towards, some of them might feel
> empowered enough to evangelise their discovery to the rest of the
> group.
> 

FWIW, and while it's certainly not enough by itself to explain the
phenomenon, I think that Ruby's object model being much more
conventional than Python's may have some influence too on RoR's adoption
by the Java world.


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