I know this is deliberate bit of hucksterism, but come on, not very many people at all consider Ruby "the language of the web". For better or worse that would be JavaScript.
Even if you were just looking at the back end PHP has a bigger presence than Ruby.
Yeah, and all those things exist for Python, yet you don't see people using Pyjamas everywhere instead of javascript... people are not going to switch to ruby to do front end work that will work fine in javascript, especially when you have all these plugins in javascript that are great.
I'm surprised to see no mention of Ruby on Truffle/Graal, which has the potential to give much higher performance than the standard Ruby interpreter.
https://github.com/jruby/jruby/wiki/Truffle
I don't know about "compiling" ruby in javascript.
At the end of the day, you are debugging javascript. From my experience, debugging is not 80% of the programmer job but more like 99%. And I feel adding a lawyer of abstraction is just making the job harder. Even if you find a good plugin to match JS to the actual Ruby source, it still feels very gimmicky.
BTW, I love Ruby and I want this to happen but it's not going to be. :{
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I know this is deliberate bit of hucksterism, but come on, not very many people at all consider Ruby "the language of the web". For better or worse that would be JavaScript.
Even if you were just looking at the back end PHP has a bigger presence than Ruby.
http://eev.ee/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/
Ruby/Rails needs a real answer to real-time front-end javascript frameworks. Grandiloquence does not inspire confidence on any project.
At the end of the day, you are debugging javascript. From my experience, debugging is not 80% of the programmer job but more like 99%. And I feel adding a lawyer of abstraction is just making the job harder. Even if you find a good plugin to match JS to the actual Ruby source, it still feels very gimmicky.
BTW, I love Ruby and I want this to happen but it's not going to be. :{