re: “Python will always run the entire file through a transcoder first…”

There is a byte type in Python 3, so if you just wanted to grab the length or whatnot, you could use that and skip the transcoder.

when you go the ruby doc site, to download the core ref, you have to literally look around to find a downloadable ref doc, for offline perusal. Yes, there are still millions of people around the world, who don’t have unlimited broadband connections to the internet !!!

compare that with the other languages like PHP , etc..

there’s always that extra tedious steps you have to go through to find more about the language.

It really feels amateurish in terms of community or “existing infrastructure” when compared with the other “open source” languages.

My belief is that without a drastic change in the culture and philosophy of the ruby community, ruby will become a marginal language some years down the road.

some time back,I did post some comments at the following site :-

http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2009/01/22/is-rubys-popularity-fading/

have moved to PHP , found it is a lot easier to do what I want to do with it and also easier to find information about the language. which equates with less time wasted on the non productive part and more time focusing on my goals.

when you go the ruby doc site, to download the core ref, you have to literally look around to find a downloadable ref doc, for offline perusal. Yes, there are still millions of people around the world, who don’t have unlimited broadband connections to the internet !!!

compare that with the other languages like PHP , etc..

there’s always that extra tedious steps you have to go through to find more about the language.

It really feels amateurish in terms of community or “existing infrastructure” when compared with the other “open source” languages.

My belief is that without a drastic change in the culture and philosophy of the ruby community, ruby will become a marginal language some years down the road.

some time back,I did post some comments at the following site :-

http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2009/01/22/is-rubys-popularity-fading/

The benchmarks josh referenced are 6 months old.

For the recent (31 Jan 2009) comparison take a look at these Ruby 1.9

For a comprehensive comparison of Ruby implementations take a look at the Ruby shootout.

If the core Ruby dev team’s problem really is lack of English fluency (and I have no reason to doubt you), then I would prefer they just wrote their docs in Japanese.

Ruby is like grown up Python with a few issues to work through. It needs some work on the VM, primarily. Documentation I don’t find so useful, never really find the need to refer to it.

Project Home: http://doc.loveruby.net/
Usable mirror: http://doc.okkez.net/

1.8.x should be fully covered, though 1.9.1 is a work in progress. The project doesn’t yet have sufficient resources to do a ja -> en translation.

Which string is re-encoded? It matters for performance reasons.

What if I do this matching over and over again in a loop with one of the strings varying. Does the unvarying one get re-encoded over and over again?

Is it consistent across operators which string will be re-encoded? Or should I just encode everything to a neutral encoding “to be safe”?

Furthermore, let’s say that a new character is standardized in a Japanese-only standard and also in Unicode and in (let’s say) two more character sets.

How can I inform Ruby that they are really the same character? Do I have to modify the source code of four codec classes? And do I need to define 12 mappings?