Chris Johnston

Not to further the growing tension between Java and Ruby developers, but here is an interesting and mostly centred article comparing the two camps.

I personally found the article to be a fairly level analysis of both sides of the argument with a very definite leaning towards Ruby. Okay, okay, Ruby rules. However, so does Java. There is a use and a place for both in a programmers toolkit. I love Java, I think it is a great language for enterprise applications and desktop apps alike. However, for simple scripting or for building small, self-contained websites (ones that don’t have to interact with legacy systems or other web apps) I would pick Ruby and Rails any day.

Can Ruby scale to the enterprise level, I don’t know, I have never tried. Can Java be used for little programs, yes, but it takes a lot more lines of code then I am willing to write.