il Sat, 15 May 2004 14:11:41 GMT, Martin DeMello
<martindemello / yahoo.com> ha scritto::

>Lyle Johnson <lyle / knology.net> wrote:
>> I just cast my votes. Also, an observation (but not a criticism): It is 
>> interesting to me that there aren't any entries on the list that I would 
>> consider pure end-user "applications". One could technically argue that 
>> an IDE like FreeRIDE is an application, but I don't see anything there 
>> that really stands on its own -- they're all packages, tools, etc. that 
>> developers would use to develop end-user applications, web sites, whatever.
>
>I've noticed that about the ruby community in general - there's a lot
>more interest in developing libraries, hacking the language, etc, than
>in writing actual "applications". I think it's partly because of the
>(unusually?) high level of interest in language design rubyists have,
>and partly because as programers, we feel the lack of libraries more
>than we feel the lack of apps.
>

I think one of the killer apps is portupgrade/portinstall. 
Strangely it gets mentioned rarely.