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Language for coding superstars

Created by : Ashwin Meshram, Project Manager, Geometric Software  | 02 20 2009 18:13:12 +0000
Industry : IT ServicesFunctional Area : Programming Languages(Technology)
Keywords : performance java rails scalability scalable ruby ruby on rails r0r
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Is Java still considered "the language" for speed, robustness and scalability, or are coders moving to new languages like RoR

  
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Although PHP and RoR are perfectly fine for even complex systems developments, when your applications need to support hundreds of concurrent users, Java is still the preferred development platform.

Moreover, planning for scalability and sustained robustness at the enterprise level requires considerations at different layers. Java might be the most powerful development platform, but for the best performance it needs a A-grade operating system and hardware, such as Solaris on SPARC systems, for example.


By Manish Kaushik, PM, Infosys  02 20 2009 18:16:44 +0000
 
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Java really is currently the 'enterprise' language. Ruby is a great systems language, and the Rails framework merges that systems language into a web development platform. I view RoR as what WebObjects once was. You can create a prototype fast and turn it quickly into a real production web application. You cannot do that with Java these days.

Java is good in that it does scale really well and the JVM is well tested. But it takes more resources to build and maintain. RoR takes less resources, and seems like it will be quite maintainable. As
By Ashwin Meshram, Project Manager, Geometric Software  02 20 2009 18:13:12 +0000
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Whatever other languages are concern java is mature. from the point of development to all issues like security & other. the only language takes hold overall after 'C' is 'JAVA'. no dout it is best of all.....  
By sachinder , Software Developer, davim  | 03 14 2009 02:16:38 +0000
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I think Java is looked at as a great Enterprise language because you can bring many programmers into a project and the language requires a particular style of work flow that makes it easier for large scale collaboration.

If you are looking at rapid prototyping, RoR allows you to build a web 2.0 site in an afternoon, but if you actually have a successful endeavor (a recent example is twitter.com) you will most likely have major scaling problems as the interaction between database and code has been obfuscated for speed of design not efficiency.


By Manas Jain, Project Lead, Infosys  | 02 20 2009 18:21:36 +0000
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Statically typed languages like Java are generally considered to be much more mantainable long term than dynamically typed languages (Ruby, Python, etc). Dynamically typed languages are however good for RAD and especially prototyping and web applications (the nature of the web usually necessitates full reimplementation of the frontend fairly often anyway). Java also wins right out on the sheer number of capable developers, available libraries and high quality tooling.


By Ashok Priya, Project Manager, Covansys  | 02 20 2009 18:20:15 +0000
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There are a lot of people and companies with a vested interest in seeing faster, more scalable implementations of both Ruby and Rails. Sun has poured a great deal of money and effort into the JRuby project, and it may well be that the most popular version of Rails in the future will run on the Java virtual machine (JVM).
By Nasir Hussain, Team Lead, Wipro  | 02 20 2009 18:29:27 +0000
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All I have to say is that scalability in Ruby is phenomenal. I mean, you honestly have to sit down for hours to read your code in php before planning an upgrade of code. In Ruby what used to take me hours now takes me minutes. What used to take me minutes now takes me seconds. What used to take me seconds... (lol, you get the point).
By Mahender Singh, Project Lead, IBM  | 02 20 2009 18:27:26 +0000
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