In the article the following comments were made: "In five years I expect that dynamic languages ... [will] overtake Java and C++ as the dominant implementation languages in most areas." - Guido van Rossum "One problem shared by all scripting languages is the lack of a good IDE environment." - Dave Thomas I believe the potential growth of Ruby usage is tied to the availability of more sophisticated editors - we need something like Intellij IDEA for Ruby. The Ruby Editor Plugin I'm developing for jEdit will provide some of the features available in Intellij like: auto indent and insert end (done) file structure popup (done) next error (done) previous error (done) next method previous method go to class find usage find declaration extract variable complete code quick rdoc I'm happy to try porting some of this work to FreeRide at a later date, but because of past experience I'm more productive in jEdit for now. Rob On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 21:09:59 +0900, Cameron Laird <claird / lairds.us> wrote: > *DevSource* profiles "The State of the Scripting Universe" in > <URL: http://www.devsource.com/article2/0,1759,1778141,00.asp >. >