Hi,

I've been doing a lot of work with Java J2ME and one thing that bars
real innovation is waiting for new API's that open up the phones
functionality. And if these API are finally released it takes years
before they are sufficiently spread to build applications with them.
NOKIA realized this and started to port PYTHON to Symbian (a popular OS
for mobile terminals). This allows programmers to easily access the
phones native functionality. Unfortunately this is still a project in
its pre-alpha state.

But maybe that's fortunate for the Ruby community. Wouldn't it be great
if Ruby was ported to mobile (aka limited) terminals as well? That
would make it more fun to develop for mobile phones and, more
important, it opens up a very big and lucrative market for Ruby
developers! Ruby could really shine in this area. It could really boost
Ruby's popularity.

Just my 2 cents.
CyBerco