{"id":20,"date":"2005-03-01T08:18:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-01T13:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/?p=20"},"modified":"2005-03-01T08:18:00","modified_gmt":"2005-03-01T13:18:00","slug":"ruby-or-java","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/2005\/03\/01\/ruby-or-java\/","title":{"rendered":"ruby or java?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Decisions, decisions. I&#8217;m trying to write a small program to help my son learn to do subtraction. (His problem&#8211;today&#8211;is borrowing, which these days is called &#8220;regrouping.&#8221;)  It is a trivial sort of GUI program and I&#8217;m trying to decide whether to learn Java UI programming with <a href=\"http:\/\/java.sun.com\/products\/jfc\/\">Swing<\/a>, or <a href=\"http:\/\/approximity.com\/ruby\/rubytk.html\">Ruby\/Tk<\/a>. Swing has the advantage of including anything I could ever possibly need and working out of box. Ruby\/Tk isn&#8217;t nearly as all-encompassing &#8230; but &#8230; let&#8217;s face it: Ruby is 10x  the language that Java will ever be. (Hence <a href=\"http:\/\/groovy.codehaus.org\/\">groovy<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> I never got around to this and he figured out how to subtract. Sort of. But it&#8217;s interesting to see all the hype about Ruby (due to Rails) and watch the Java types freak out about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Decisions, decisions. I&#8217;m trying to write a small program to help my son learn to do subtraction. (His problem&#8211;today&#8211;is borrowing, which these days is called &#8220;regrouping.&#8221;) It is a trivial sort of GUI program and I&#8217;m trying to decide whether to learn Java UI programming with Swing, or Ruby\/Tk. Swing has the advantage of including [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paRqpr-k","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}