about ruby 1.9

ruby 1.9 is released in this christmas. this release is very meaningful. in 1.9, critical i18n bug is fixed, so you can use mixed character code, not only utf-8. many other trivial, but unobvious syntax is fixed also. the performance is improved much.

ruby developer’s move is very reasonable. it only focuses on its very own usage. it doesn’t target all platform or all purpose, i.e. embedded or gui. and that’s enough in this age..

i think ruby 1.9 or 2.0 will be the turning point like linux’s 2.4, from personal web page to enterprise server. it was very painful to maintain 2.2 or below version’s linux server. so i’ll wait to use rail till 2.0’s released. it will not take so long. see you then~