Lonely Lion

“What’s the big deal with Rails?”, asks the adju.st guy, linking to my last post. The answer is: who knows. It’s very popular, and is pulling a lot of non-traditional eyes towards the exciting world of open source web development.

Meh. It sounds cheesy because it is cheesy. Sure, Rails is just another framework, but if PHP has taught us anything, it isn’t important how good or bad something is, what’s really important is how many graphic designers it can snare. Ruby on Rails is the current blog-darling, it looks like Django is starting to pull some of its wind (or at least share its wind). Python and Ruby, as languages, attract nice bright people that like to hang out with other nice bright people, so a sort of get-together is inevitable. I’m happy that Chicago seems to be one of the first such explicit “Ruby people, meet the Python people” towns. As of yet, not much has happened in the way of scheduling this, but it’s at least somewhat exciting.