I recently started reading Dr. Dobb’s Journal again, and quickly came across this article on Ruby. It goes beyond just talking about how Ruby is really gaining momentum as a serious enterprise programming language, especially for dynamic web apps. The article also mentions two supposed new technologies from Microsoft: APAX and ARAX. Yep, that’s basically AJAX with Python or Ruby instead of the JavaScript. Unfortunately, I haven’t really seen anything official about either APAX or ARAX, except maybe this post from Savas (a Microsoft engineer). As a Python fan, I’m looking forward to more information becoming available.
On a side note, I recently learned that Ruby treats zero as a true value. I find that rather irritating.
