From: Lothar Scholz <mailinglists@...>
Date: 2003-05-07T19:02:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Why is PHP so popular?  What can we learn from the PHP camp?

>>>ArachnoPHP IDE (see http://www.scriptolutions.com").
>>

> completely OT: some hint about when arachnoRuby could be out ?

I'm sorry: i can't say anything. Its still in the business plan,
the icons and art work is ready and the code is written with ruby
in mind. The editor and other parts of the framework are now
stable enough that i switched from Emacs to ArachnoEiffel and work 8
hours a day - but i'm not in a hurry to release something quickly.

The main problem is that writing a very fast, fuzzy and state based ruby
parser is more difficult then i thought. And i want to wait for the FreeRide
team to get their debugger working. I remember postings on this list
that there are some problems in the ruby core, that could have great
influence on the time you need to write a debugger.

But i'm reading the ruby newsgroup daily and you can be sure that i
will post a request for alpha testers if i have made some progress.