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"Platypus is a developer tool for the Mac OS X operating system. It can be used to create native, flawlessly integrated Mac OS X applications from interpreted scripts such as shell scripts or Perl, Python and PHP programs."

« nous, développeurs Javas, devons nous remettre en question d’urgence. En voyant des projets sur PHP ou Ruby on Rails, j’ai un peu la gueule de bois avec mon Java. Je pense que pour le développement d’applications Webs, il faut revoir notre manière de penser, notre manière de travailler »

Privilégier les compétences internes, plus que la hype : "Our decision on this matter had nothing to do with Ruby, or Rails — in fact we have a great respect for both! The reason [...] we switched is that PHP is our core competency at Automattic."

Hooks are just one of the techniques available to us for robustly handling extension in a language as dynamic and powerful as Ruby. Another is using the dependency injection style1 to decouple classes from each other and allow third parties to substitute their own classes without monkey patching. Another un-sexy but important practice is simply writing clear and comprehensive documentation of our classes’ APIs and extension points.

Ruby est sur le radar de Microsoft