On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 9:25 AM, Alex Boisvert <[email protected]>wrote:
> For better or worse, a distinguishing feature of Buildr remains its ties to > Ruby. Ruby is a great language with a rich ecosystem and a lively > culture. It can also be perceived as 'another language to learn' or > 'introducing yet-another language' into a project. I'd rank these fears as > our biggest obstacle to popularity. However, these fears are irrational and > as a small project I don't think there's much we can do to overcome them. > Related tweet <http://twitter.com/headius/status/8284505695> from Charles Nutter (headius) today: I wish Rubyists realized how much energy and time it takes to promote Ruby > to Java folks. It's like missionary work...a thankless job. >
