OK, I admit, Ruby on Rails is impressive
I have been hearing about Ruby On Rails for around a year. A bunch of fanatics really devote their life to promoting it even where it’s off topic and inappropriate. I tryed looking into it a few times, but the syntax got me away from it every time. Instead of going the same way as any other langage, they decided to try to make everything comapct and unreadable. With the release of the 1.0 version, I visited the website once more and found these videos, which really demonstrate the ease of use.
The things they do within a few minutes really is impressive, but the impressive part is not the language itself, it’s the entire platform. All the examples I saw were made from OSX, so I don’t really know which IDE they are using, but it seems efficient with the language. There are a bunch of scripts available to generate base files and structures. All common tasks have quick ways to be done, from form validation to AJAX display.
It does look promising, but the syntax is so horrible, there is no way I could stand going any further.