Why we moved from NodeJS to Ruby on Rails

Re:Why we moved from NodeJS to Ruby on Rails by clarkdave on Monday May 14, 2012 @04:10PM (#3972983)

Only the CLI utility in Play used Python, and the newest version has replaced this dependency with Scala/SBT instead. I imagine the original reason for using Python for the CLI was because it's pretty damn easy to do that in Python.

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Re:Why we moved from NodeJS to Ruby on Rails by javajosh on Monday May 14, 2012 @05:38PM (#3973482)

Python is great for that sort of thing - but there do exist CLI helper libraries for Java in Apache Commons that make it almost as nice. It's just wierd to me to make development tooling for a langage in a different language - and indeed, if you find yourself doing this you might want to ask yourself why. (Of course there's a clear market reason - the hosted Ruby on Rails market is locked up by Heroku, but the hosted Java market, apart from a subset of JEE supported by GAE, doesn't even exist.)

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Re:Why we moved from NodeJS to Ruby on Rails by bad_user on Tuesday May 15, 2012 @07:38AM (#3976066)

If you have to ask yourself that question, then you haven't really worked with a scripting language like Python or Ruby.

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