From: Lloyd Linklater Date: 2007-11-27T10:47:47+09:00 Subject: Re: "Why I Program In Ruby (And Maybe Why You Shouldn't)" Trollen Lord wrote: > All in all, Ruby could really shine. But I think it will never do that. Well, I think that it is overstating things to say that it will *never* shine. People can do amazing things if properly motivated. That having been said, I must say that I agree with you in spirit. I think that, as a language, it is has great stuff inside and I feel good when I write with it. OTOH, I also agree that it is not ready for GUI IDE development. While it would be nice if there was a Delphi for Ruby, I do not see an incipient release. As was mentioned before, there are growing pains to be reckoned with. I remember writing assembler programs using debug. That totally sucked, but I persisted as did others and things got better. We do need to have someone get things together. Things will take off in a major way when people can write a reasonable IDE. Even if it is only what Visual Basic or Delphi had 10 years ago, it would be more than enough to bring ruby into prime time. I love the language. I have tried several libraries to make GUI apps with no success. I am thinking of writing something to use rails as some kind of "I give up. Give me ANYTHING" kind of user interface. I find that part frustrating especially as everything I learn about ruby makes me love it more, I find that I cannot get much use out of it. I just write small scripts to do grunt work. Is someone working on this somewhere? /hope -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.