From: Brad Cox <bcox@...>
Date: 2002-11-06T02:04:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Thoughts on Ruby lack of IDE

It is a sign of my hybrid Objective-C background, no doubt, but I 
don't find Ruby's hybrid nature at all disturbing. Language purists 
are free to disagree.

What does seem like substantial deficiency is the absence of a real 
integrated development environment for Ruby. The early Smalltalk 
articles were quite specific that this is the main reason for its 
productivity.

What isn't clear the extend of coupling between simplicity of the 
language and the IDE implementation, learing GUI portability issues 
aside. Look at Java IDEs for example; they are HUGE, whereas 
Smalltalk+IDE was reasonably small.
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