ongwt.com - Redshift: A GWT for Ruby developers ?

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1.Monday 10 November 2008 05:07 par jessesielaff

<p>A flattering comparison, to be sure. At this point, with Red and Redshift<br/>having been developed by just me and one other developer, I assure you that GWT<br/>is a far, far superior tool in terms of stability, performance, and<br/>optimization; that said, I will obviously welcome recommendations for how to<br/>improve Red/Redshift from the perspective of GWT users. Thanks for the<br/>writeup!</p>

2.Monday 10 November 2008 08:01 par Christian Fauré

<p>And with an interesting comment by trek from the original post :</p><br/><p>" It would be breath taking to step into the minds of the average Ruby<br/>developer. Tell me, what is it about Javascript that causes your tails to fall<br/>between your legs? This is yet another attempt by your average narrow minded<br/>Ruby novice who wished Ruby was the only thing we should have to know. WAKE UP<br/>!</p><br/><p>I have just finied up a 6 month Rails project at a client where RJS was<br/>seriously enforced because javascript “was so terrible”. It’s ironic that Ruby<br/>programmers promote beautiful clean code, yet don’t see that their<br/>partials/templates turn into a hog mess of sloppy helper/rjs methods.</p><br/><p>Do you want to solve a real problem? Figure out how to bridge client server<br/>ajax apps, not hide such an amazing language because you guys just cant do<br/>it.<br /><br/>"</p>

3.Monday 10 November 2008 09:30 par trek

<p>Christian - That's not me who made the comment, it's by "jay smith".<br/>Clearly, as one of the developers of Red/Redshift I think it's a fine idea.</p>

4.Tuesday 11 November 2008 03:17 par Dobes Vandermeer

<p>I really think GWT is great because it participates in refactoring<br/>operations and static type checking in the IDE, which reduces the number of<br/>errors in the code during development and maintenance. Not learning javascript<br/>is secondary, minor benefit - javascript isn't very hard to learn.</p><br/><p>Ruby doesn't (as far as I know) support refactoring or compile-time checking<br/>so the javascript compiler is not particularly exciting. I was previously using<br/>and contributing actively to pyjamas, which was a Python to javascript compiler<br/>and I made the realization that it's really quite pointless - these dynamic<br/>languages are similar enough that you're almost at a disadvantage using the<br/>translator since you can't use the various (rather good) javascript libraries<br/>out there (like jquery) as easily.</p>

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