DISQUS

Pat Gannon · 1 month ago

Another motivation for using IronRuby instead of IronPython, in addition to preferring jewels to snakes, is that it provided us the option to iteratively evolve our UI automation logic into an internal DSL, ostensibly speeding up the development of similar UI automation logic in the future, at least for that particular external application (although we never quite got to that point before the aforementioned client loss).

nstults · 1 month ago

Good point. That is a big benefit of Ruby in almost any usage scenario, but particularly one where you are doing what we were doing and adding scripting to your application. I don't know what metaprogramming mojo Python has, but Ruby makes it absolutely trivial to throw together a relatively elegant, expressive DSL.