On Sat, 2004-01-03 at 18:31, Josef 'Jupp' SCHUGT wrote: > Hi! > > * Greg Brondo: > > Why do more large applications (like LimeWire for instance) seem > > to be written in Java these days instead of Ruby or one of the > > other scripting languages (insert favorite here). I've written in > > Java and it seems more of a bear to me than anything else. Ruby is > > much, much quicker for "getting the job done". > > It's a positive feedback loop: The more people know what Ruby can do > for them the more people will learn about it and use it. One indicator of Ruby's usage are the download charts of the Ruby interpreter on RubyForge: http://rubyforge.org/project/stats/index.php?report=months&group_id=30 Seems like a fair number of folks are getting Ruby... and that's only one of several mirrors... Yours, tom