Frankly, I would challenge the "killer app" criteria as any sort of major 
contributor to the popularity of a language.
 
Just take a look at RoR - it made a splash a while ago, yes, but apart from 
attracting attention and putting a relatively obscure language like Ruby on 
the radar, it did almost nothing for general Ruby adoption. (if anything it 
was Ruby's own language features that captured the imagination of people who 
used it in any significant )
 
On the other hand - what are the big "killer apps" for C#, Java, PHP, Python 
or even Perl, if you will... ?

neljapäev, 2. juuni 2011 15:04.57 UTC+3 kirjutas phil swenson:

> I think that for another language to seriously challenge Java on the
> JVM it would need the following: 
>
> - killer application (equivalent to Ruby on Rails for example)
>

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