Read about the state of the Ruby VMs

The Impending Ruby Fracture is an interesting read on the state of the Ruby virtual machines. The comments are equally interesting, since they complete the perspective.

scripting vs typed languages

Interesting contrast here.

But I think that IDE’s aren’t the only frontier of progress. The ruby on rails framework takes the informality of the ruby language seriously. This informal ease with which ruby can “write” code on-the-fly is what helped David Heinemeier Hansson start writing the rails framework, and it is responsible for a lot of the rails magic.

Statically typed syntax has a lot of formality in the expression that would simply make a rails-like framework hard or impossible to write.

Formality is inherent in statically typed languages. This is Groovy will help Java immensely.