Google engineer Cedric Beust argues that Ruby on Rails is not destined for mainstream acceptance. Here are his basic arguments, which he explains further in his own post:
Ruby is too hard for most people. Rails is too clever. No credible IDE. Fanaticism of the user base is off-putting. Ecosystem for Ruby Web development frameworks is monopolized by Rails. Rails is [...]
The other day someone was explaining to me that the reason Apple laptops don’t have particularly interesting form factors is that Apple’s volume is low enough that a broader spectrum of laptop models would mean that each individual model wouldn’t sell enough to cover the development costs. A small fraction of the PC laptop market [...]
You know, Apple’s announcement of Boot Camp, a tool to make it easy to install Windows XP on Intel-based Macs, was a stroke of strategic genius. Not everyone is happy with it, but that doesn’t matter. None of the unhappy people are going to refuse to buy Macs because they don’t like it. They’re [...]
I mentioned last Monday that I was taking about a week off from my aggregator. By the weekend I had about 1400 unread items, and I finally caught up last night. There were a few feeds that I marked as read, but most feeds I at least skimmed.
What I discovered is that just leaving my [...]
The developers of Ruby on Rails have come up with yet another small but important innovation in the world of Web applications. Way back in release 0.14, they added the ability to freeze rails, which copies all of the system-wide Ruby libraries you might depend on into a directory in the application so that if [...]