On Feb 14, 2006, at 12:55 PM, Brad Rhine wrote:
On Feb 14, 2006, at 3:49 PM, Troy Rollins wrote:
Yet, a true blockbuster app has never been produced in RB. Why is
that? Maybe because of its cross-platform nature? Maybe because of
its lack of tools for development teams? For whatever reason, it
hasn't been done.
Not to prolong this thread, but why is this an issue? I don't care (in
general) what other people have done with RB; I care about what *I*
can do with RB.
Some people care that a tool is general purpose enough to write the
next Photoshop (or whatever).
That it's general purpose enough to be applied to nearly ANY project.
Desiring such a thing usually relegates one to C/C++ or some other
similar low level language.
Java is not great for some tasks and killer for others. Perl is great
for some tasks lousy for others.
(Every try writing an interactive web site in SQL ? I have one that a
friend wrote and ickkkk ...... )
The "one language to rule them all" desire is, in this day and age,
simply not likely to happen.
So, as Jordan said, everyone should have a tool bag that they can
attack problems with.
While it would be nice to write OS kernel extensions in RB I don't
think we're going to see that for some time.
But RB can expand it's realm of applicability gradually AND be a very
effective tool for others at the same time.
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