From: Simon Strandgaard Date: 2004-05-15T23:25:22+09:00 Subject: Re: Please revisit Ruby's Best and vote for additions Martin DeMello wrote: > Lyle Johnson 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. My experience.. It takes forever to make an application, my AEditor project is far from completed, its ugly, it sux. However it has spawned bunches of minor libraries (subcomponents of aeditor). http://aeditor.rubyforge.org/ On the other hand, tiny applications can be made very quickly. I once wrote a tetris game in a weekend in 260 lines of Ruby code. Its bundled with SDL. But there is too little functionality in it, so I don't think it can be considered being a real application. http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/ruby-sdl/ -- Simon Strangaard