I love this article. I’ve been playing/working with Ruby for a while but man I just can’t get past the stone age tools that they have. The other real hard thing about is that when I compare something like Seaside/Gemstone to Ruby on Rails , its hands down not Ruby on Rails. The only thing that makes me pause is of course that Ruby is hot and well Smalltalk is just there. Then again its been “there” for a while. It doesn’t seem to quite go away. It survives , and I still survive making a living with it. But learning is good, and having more tools on your resume can’t hurt. If I have to go anywhere else than Smalltalk I guess that Ruby might be ok, notwithstanding the better tool support in Java. I’m a dynamic languages type of guy.
Anyhow, this guy wrote a real cool and to the point article on Ruby and why people should listen to “old dudes that know Smalltalk” , I of course agree.