From: darren <rubylang@...>
Date: 2004-12-30T08:56:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Best ways to accelerate Ruby's popularity

You have a point.  Comments from Slashdot posters is what motivated me to look 
at Ruby.  The comments I saw were something like, "if you like Python, you 
will love Ruby".  I hear/see that alot.  The key point is that the comments 
were not made in threads where Ruby was the topic.  They were just thrown in 
by Ruby enthusiasts.

I agree with many of the comments about the website, too.  In particular, 
Miles' comments quite accurately paralleled my experience.

darren

On Wednesday 29 December 2004 4:59 pm, Josef 'Jupp' Schugt wrote:
> Thursday wrote:
> > I think Ruby's popularity is growing, but I can't help but wonder
> > what we can do to accelerate its adoption.
> >
> > 1. a more formal release process
> >
> > 2. a bug tracking system where we can report and view bugs
> >
> > 3. last but not least, online docs on Ruby's primary website
>
> I think that the following agenda will be better:
>
> 1. DGDATAT
> 2. DGDATAT
> 3. DGDATAT
>
> DGDATAT: Do good deeds and talk about them.
>
> By that I mean that the best way of making popular *any* programming
> language is not meeting some formal requirements on how the language is
> developed and documented but rather by writing good "everybody wants to
> have" software and libraries in Ruby and talk about them whenever you
> see the slightest chance someone may be interested in them.
>
> When trying to talk people into the use of Ruby I often face responses
> like these:
>
> "Is there a Ruby library to do X?"
> "Has someone written a Ruby program to do Y?"
>
> Josef 'Jupp' Schugt