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Closed 11 years ago.
I'm looking to add scripting into my Java app and JavaScript would be a great language choice. My concern though is the Rhino project and its future.
While Groovy/Jruby etc have seen constant updates, and engines like V8 and SpiderMonkey make continuous and significant performance boosts; Rhino languishes with its last release in March '09.
I've seen some work on hacking Rhino:
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jrose/pres/201009-ThunderingRhinos/pres.html
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2011/rohit_mullangi/37001
But nothing solid about actually merging this code into the project and getting an active committer community around it.
Does anyone have any insight into the Rhino road map?
Is there any plan for example to bring invokedynamic to the Rhino world?
Or is Rhino's destiny to simply become less and less relevant as time goes on?
All insight appreciated!
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Can anyone suggest me a good RoR open source project that covers a lot of Rails fundamentals but yet is simple, and most importantly has lot of features or atleast bug fixes that are yet to be implemented? I checked out a few like Spree, Substruct, etc. but could not zero in upon one, that is simple and has features to develop. I am not sure if any of them even had list of bugs to be fixed., though features will be better.
Check Diaspora, this is the Diaspora Github page.
Here is the List of open Issues
Here is the Diaspora Installation Guide
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I have spent some time familiarizing myself with
rails (ruby),
django...and other things like zope and pylons/pyramid (python),
catalyst (perl)
but often find myself wanting to use
sinatra (ruby)
bottle...or flask...(python)
dancer...(perl)
I'm not entirely sure...when I'm about to start a new project, which I should use.
What should be the deciding factor that makes me switch from a micro framework to something more substantial. Is it just when I would otherwise have too much SQL to write? I think not, because if that were the case I could just use an ORM library/module.
My main issue is a fear of choosing something that other developers would not understand if someone else needed to fix the site at a later point in time. Still I am still not sure what should inform my opinion.
With miсro frameworks you have more freedom in the use of libraries, you can add what you think is right. In large frameworks such as Django and etc already much that is "screwed" and there are certain rules and best practices how best to write certain things.
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Closed 10 years ago.
I just wanted to get a view on why one should use DART over JS, specially if you are working on the front-end; the Dart VM isn't even built into Chrome.
Don't worry about Chrome, it will be shipped within Chrome at some point when the stable 1.0 is out.
A couple of reasons why you might want to choose Dart over plain JavaScript for front-end development:
Better DOM API
Being more productive
Simpler and clearer semantics
Lexical closures
Libraries and a package manager
Optional static typing
Literally tons of little details that as a whole makes it a far nicer experience (named parameters, arrow functions, etc.)
You might want to read this chapter as it explains various things that Dart can do: http://www.dartlang.org/docs/dart-up-and-running/ch02.html
You can also read this answer to the question "Does Dart have any useful features for web developers?"
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Closed 11 years ago.
Is the Ruby language, specially when used in the context of a framework like Ruby on Rails, ready for building large systems with complex business logic and advanced mechanisms, keeping its productivity edge and maintainability?
Can it replace Java EE?
This question is a bit subjective, and "replace Java EE" goes a little far, but you can certainly build scalable enterprise grade applications in Ruby on Rails.
My observation of the Ruby ecosystem, however, is that there are more platform dependencies that can trip you up and the variety of third party libraries to bring in complimentary functionality may not be as wide as you would get in Java.
On the other hand, the gems infrastructure is pretty neat and line-for-line you will get more function out of less actual code in ruby.
Finally, and this may matter as you need to scale up a team, I think it is easier to find experienced Java EE devs than it is to find experienced Rails devs.
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Are there any websites/blogs (perhaps by F# team members?) where thoughts about the future of F# are regularly discussed/revealed?
I know of some team members' blogs, but none that I've found contain this type of content.
http://www.microsoftpdc.com/
which is broadcast online next week, has as session entitled
The Future of F#: Data and Services at your Finger Tips
Don Syme
listed.
(We are always thinking about new ideas, but now that we are part of a shipping product (VS2010) with a typical release cadence (every couple years or so), it is likely that we will be a little less transparent in the months just after shipping a major release, as we start to "bake" some new ideas while encouraging people to use the shipped product... as time passes and it becomes time to ship some CTPs/Betas and whatnot, I expect you'll hear more about the future. Don's talk (and PDC in general) is somewhat forward-looking, I think.)