From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2004-05-15T23:13:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Please revisit  Ruby's Best and vote for additions

Lyle Johnson <lyle@knology.net> wrote:
> I just cast my votes. Also, an observation (but not a criticism): It is 
> interesting to me that there aren't any entries on the list that I would 
> consider pure end-user "applications". One could technically argue that 
> an IDE like FreeRIDE is an application, but I don't see anything there 
> that really stands on its own -- they're all packages, tools, etc. that 
> developers would use to develop end-user applications, web sites, whatever.

I've noticed that about the ruby community in general - there's a lot
more interest in developing libraries, hacking the language, etc, than
in writing actual "applications". I think it's partly because of the
(unusually?) high level of interest in language design rubyists have,
and partly because as programers, we feel the lack of libraries more
than we feel the lack of apps.

martin