From: Dimitri Aivaliotis <aglarond@...>
Date: 2005-01-14T21:51:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Proliferation of web frameworks

On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 21:41:12 +0900, gabriele renzi
<rff_rff@remove-yahoo.it> wrote:
> Phil Tomson ha scritto:
> 
> >
> >>Btw anyone wants to build something like python's Twisted in ruby ?
> >
> >
> >
> > Isn't Twisted kind of like drb? (I could be way off here)
> >
> 
> It is a general framework for writing asynchronous stuff, including
> remoting protocols, standard internet protocols like
> http/ftp/imap/whatever, gui stuff and database stuff.
> It can provide something like drb, I'd say, but it's not just it.
> 
> 

From what I just quickly read on
http://twistedmatrix.com/services/twisted-advantage (and elsewhere on
that site), it certainly looks like a worthwhile project.  It kind of
reminds me of 9P2000/Styx from Plan9/Inferno, which is something that
I've been wanting in Ruby lately...

- Dimitri