It's not worst than papers, television and even radio - there's humans behind it, afterall.

And you are another selfish trying to do the same, ignoring people that likes xclock and others apps that still needs x protocol.

So shut up and go help Wayland yourself!

Go Windows. You appears to be the kind of guy that will enjoy it.

If Wayland is not finished yet, and then we can't make educated guesses about it viability, how in hell we should decide to adopt or to dump it?

This is supposed to be a engineering field. Faith is another department, I'm right?

I need metrics. I need measurements. I need benchmarks.

The (few) ones I'm geeting tells me that X.org is not he best thing over the Earth, but does its job, does it faster than GDI/Quartz, and even does more than GDI/Quartz. Why should I migrate to Wayland?

Someone mod parent "+1 FUCKING INSIGHTFUL" please.

Sprechen sie Deutsch? I took some lessons some years ago (but forgot almost everything, since I don't practice it). The way you form your sentences are very different from the way we form ours (my mother tongue is Portuguese), that it's very different from the way english speakers form theirs. Pretty messy.

Well, I'll buy it. A guy from a culture that likes to glue long words (like "lebensabschnittgefährter") will, indeed, have some difficulties while choosing what words should be separated, and what words would not.

"Javascript" is still a widely known "symbol", but if you like me still build your phrases mentally in your mother tongue and then translates it "on the fly" to english, the "typing phase" happens after the "phrasing phase", that it's when symbols matters. At least, it appears to be how some of my worst english phrases was formed in the past.

What can I say except.. My apologies. There's some kind of statement I can make on my previous posts that would help make amendments to you?

Or perhaps just the evidence that my statement is true, as I'm a tech guy! =D

Experience also taught me that germans are very fond of correctness and ethics (I worked for Siemens Mobile, and later, for Siemens VDO in the past and had contact with a lot of germans). That would be a fallacy too?

Anyway, your motivations are clear only to you. The rest of us must deal with probabilities: are you making a honest mistake? Are you astroturfing? Or just trolling the subject? Nobody but you really knows, but we must make a decision nevertheless. I did mine based on my previous experience with Ruby/PHP/Whatever evangelists (some of them, being my co-workers from yet another job I had, most of them here at Slashdot). As it appears, I made a mistake.

What you did was very "german", by the way: most of people around here would just offend me and then would use some modpoints to modtrolling me (it happens a lot... =P). But you had gone through my previous posts to gather intel and formulate a (logic) defense of your cause. Thanks.

Ruby and Rails are so tightly connect nowadays that I think is improbable the one would survive the demise of the other.

I know that Ruby, the Language, can be used to a LOT of other things - I also did it myself, mainly to get rid of Perl in my life. :-) (man, I hate Perl... )

I'm very fond of Ruby, I like the way it does things very much.

However, Ruby the Language is somehow hostage of the Ruby, the Rails workhorse. So, yes, I think that Ruby is "dying" as a well accepted tool for programming. The lack of support will make things worse for the Maintainer, that will have less support to do a good job - and maintaining a project like Ruby is not for the faint of heart...

From my side, I choose to migrate to Python. Does everything that Ruby does (but not as nice, sometimes), it appears that it will be there in the future, and it also can be used to quick & dirty Web Apps (you know, I found Django easier to work than Rails...). No need to keep Ruby around for one task only.

No agenda at all.

I'm not using any of my typos trying to prove or demonstrate something... :-)

Weird.

J2EE, J2ME (!!) and J2SE appears to be all in the same level: oblivion. Even "Java Platform" is almost done.

But, "Java the Language" is still strong (because Android, I think).

Oracle effect, perhaps?

Damn... I should stop drinking... I don't believe I posted TWICE on the same subject... X-|

Your agenda. Your post is clearly biased on defending Ruby. That would be Ok, we're all biased somehow - but experience taught me that tech people has a strong inclination to include lies and fallacies while arguing on subjects he/she has a bias on.

"Javascript" is a word massively disseminated - very improbable that one professional that makes a living in this field would misspell this word the way you did. You didn't switched or missed a letter, you inserted a space between two recognizable words, the kind of error my mom or sister would do (as "javascript" is not a recognizable symbol for them, but "java" and "script" are) , but not my brother (as he works on the field too and, so, "javascript" is an easily recognizable symbol for him).

Of course, perhaps you are not a professional on the field - but so, why are you debating about Ruby?

Granted, "improbable" is not the same to "impossible". But, again, your assertiveness on the matter, the lack of space for a debate and the apparent carefully picken options to compare with (making Ruby looks good) makes me think you have an Agenda on the subject.

You spelled Javascript wrongly (it was not an accident, uh?), and your query about Ruby is too generic: you're counting queries about the stones too.

Your post is a fallacy, and it worries me that enough people find it "insightful".

Here, I made a good query for you. Ruby is in *serious* declining.

What 2013 demonstrated us is that UX is not user driven anymore, but marketing driven.

The User Interface is not trimmed anymore to help the user on solving his/her problems or executing his/her jobs.

The User Interface is, now, trimmed to help someone else's job. And this job is to sell something to the user (at best), or simply take something from him/her (at worst).

This Mac is not the most expensive Apple Computer. To tell you true true, is in the historical average for its class: in the nineties, the Quadra 950 was sold for 7200USD - something as 11200USD nowadays, as calculated by http://www.westegg.com/inflation/ .

Apple Computer was never a cheap computer shop. Since the Apple II era, their computers was far more expensive than the competition. It's a computing niche, where quality and user satisfaction worths more than money.

The cost/benefit ratio is far from reasonable, if you ask my opinion. But the same can be said about Ferrari cars, and you can bet your damn mouse I would drive a Ferrari if I could.

Thanks God Steve Jobs never worked for you.