thoughts.on.code

Tonight I was reminded of McCarthyism as I read yet another post by James McGovern, “Thought Leader“.   The inconsequential “facts” that “must” be proven, the distortion of other’s views, the belaboring of an issue, well past it’s expiration, the  fear of losing control.

We as a Ruby community have been hoodwinked into listening to this guy, and trying to explain to him what the problems are with his argument (or lack thereof).  We should have just ignored him.
We know that Ruby will make it into the larger Enterprise.  We know that there is a ground-swell and for once,  technology and innovation is being pushed by the developers, not the spec writers who work for the IT giants.  It will happen.
Will this happen immediately? No.  Soon? yeah, probably.

Will it be a complete domination? Not likely.  Java is just now becoming COBOL.  And, Ruby is not “backed” by the Big Dogs, nor will it see much in that regards.  But, with the right combination of killer architectural solution (DSL’s maybe?) and continued ground-swell, we could see that happen.
And this is the type of FUD we can expect.  Don’t forget the FUD about Java when it started it’s rise against C++ and VB.  Just back then we didn’t have an “early hater” to associate with it.