[threeseed]

Exactly. Can you imagine all of the Java/C developers telling Ruby developers that they are idiots and don't know anything about programming ? Simply because they choose a technology that is designed for developer productivity at the expense of scalability.

Because that what seems to happen for every database discussion.

[lucian1900]

The better comparison would be to PHP, and indeed, no one should ever use tools of quality as poor as PHP or MongoDB.

[sosborn]

>Can you imagine all of the Java/C developers telling Ruby developers that they are idiots and don't know anything about programming ?

Unfortunately this seems to happen all the time.

[pjmlp]

No, because Ruby also runs on the JVM/.NET and has native code compilers available.