From: "Berger, Daniel" Date: 2006-03-04T01:21:48+09:00 Subject: Ruby on the mobile? Hi all, I found this post interesting. Is Ruby ignoring the mobile market? Do we need a "microruby" implementation? From Berco Beute, commenting on GvR's "Marketing Python - An Idea Whose Time Has Come" Artima post at http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=150515 "Trying to market python is useless, it has to sell itself. Ruby isn't marketed as most in this forum seem to believe. It is has one great vehicle: RoR. The ideas behind RoR were interesting enough to sell itself. Ruby just piggybacks. Fortunately for Python there is one giant opportunity right under its nose: mobile devices. I won't grow tired pointing out that the market of mobile devices will be so much bigger than the PC market. With Nokia's open source implementation of a Python interpreter for their series 60 phones the first steps have been taken in the right direction. And it's a direction that the Ruby community completely ignores. I've been using Ruby before Python and once explicitely asked the Ruby community, via their main newsgroup, whether anybody was thinking about a Ruby interpreter for mobile devices. No positive reactions. So if you want Python to become more popular, grab the source of Nokia's implementation from here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pys60 and port it every thinkable mobile device. Compelling applications will follow, believe me, since the advantage of using python over e.g. java microedition are enormous and many developers will be eager to switch."