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Re:Pharo MOOC by shawnz on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @06:12PM (#16759733)
Well, it's not an IDE, so it's not fair to compare it to Pharo which is trying to be both a runtime environment and an IDE. If anything, it's an advantage that Ruby allows you to make choices about the development environment you use.
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Re:Pharo MOOC by FractalLP on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @07:39PM (#16760377)
I think it's fair to compare the language+environment which is the only thing that practically matters. Smalltalk has a really nice IDE and fast VM. Ruby doesn't have a native IDE, but does well with things like Vim & Notepad++. Ruby has a lot more modules and Rails. I wouldn't consider Ruby to be very fast being one of the slowest popular languages out there.
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