[REBOL] Re: Language Popularity & Network Effects; Ruby & Mongrel
From: Izkata:Comcast at: 21-Nov-2007 12:09
On Wed, 2007-11-21 at 21:54 +1300, Carl Read wrote:
> On Wednesday, 21-Novenber-2007 at 9:00:33 Petr Krenzelok wrote,
>
> >
> >Carl Read napsal(a):
> >> >From the fashion industry one...
> >>
> >> "Trained staff in a minority language are going to be rare. This does not
> >necessarily make them more expensive (nobody else wants them), but it does
> >make recruitment much harder and more uncertain. Alternatively you have to
> >train all your existing people in the new language. And for Functional
> >Languages its not just another syntax, its a whole new way of thinking."
> >>
> >> Two marks against REBOL there.
> >>
> >> Still, he did suggest a road to popularity - find a niche and own it.
> >What's a niche REBOL could create/take over?
> >>
> >
> >Flash/Flex area - small, agile, distributed self-served PLATFORM, not
> >just a language. There is long term plan - Altissimo - mixture of
> >ViewTop, IOS, Altme, platform for small distributed apps.
>
> An online desktop then, but with no need of a central server owned by others?
>
> A Google for "online desktop" turns up plenty of attempts, but I suspect all of them
are based on central-servers. In other words, designed for lock-in. (No time to test
them. I looked at the offerings a year or so back, and some looked promising in that
they were relatively responsive, while others were horribly slow.)
I've tried 3 or 4 of them out of curiosity, and all the ones I tried
extremely laggy. I don't see how it's possible to get anything done on
them.
