Polyglot: When Ruby isn't enough or even sane
summary
Argues that Ruby is great for productivity but not a one‑size‑fits‑all: systems work, POSIX calls and IO need different tools. Compares practical scores — Ruby agility 9, Erlang concurrency 8, Go CPU/IO 9 — and cites concrete ports and exercises: reimplementing a Redis client, cloning Sinatra, and Yan’s simple Reddit server in Node to learn networking and protocols. Recommends EventMachine, bash/vi/Perl for text mining, JSON/BSON/REST for interoperable wire formats, and emphasizes porting then rewriting idiomatically.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Start
- 1:21Polyglot
- 2:04Real World Example Polyglot
- 3:29Interactive Bash
- 7:15Encapsulation in Javascript
- 11:02Text Mining
- 11:21Erlang
- 12:12Web Development Mode
- 25:48Korba the Common Object Request Broker Architecture
- 28:17Json
- 30:22Http Shredder
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