Rails 4.1 - Why Spring? [closed]

Question

Now with Spring built-in with rails 4.1, I am curious about why the dev-team chose Spring over the others (Zeus and Spork).

Why did they choose Spring?

Ticklish

Question changed so that it is not primarily opinion-based. – Ticklish

it's still opinion-based, and the only answer is 'because the core team wanted to'. – Grekin

I'm not sure if you are serious or not, but that sure is not a an answer to this question. Or maybe you are one of those people that likes to answer "because it is like that" on all questions. – Ticklish

Rails is a really opinionated framework, though, so it makes arbitrary decisions like that. You'll get used to it. – Grekin

Answer 1

If you read the README from the v0.9 tag of Spring it should answer your question: https://github.com/rails/spring/tree/v0.0.9

The highlights appear to be:

• implemented in pure Ruby
• makes use of Rails' built-in code reloader
• totally automatic (boots up in the background the first time you run a command)

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