[Mostly OT] Tate Talks About Language-Adoption Risks

[Dan Shafer]

I think it makes sense to try to find a niche for Rev in which it would
excel so well it would compel users of Java and those considering Ruby to
take a closer look at it. I don't think Internet apps are the place to do
that. As long as Rev is single-threaded, it doesn't hold much promise on the
server side of the Internet equation for scalable application deployment,
which is why I've started using Python/Plone as my Web app framework. Andre
Garzia and I worked hard (me on design and cheerleading,  him on coding and
testing) to try to create Rev on Rockets as a Web framework but the single
threading is an absolute deal killer.

Database-driven and database-backed Web apps are the most popular kinds of
software being built today according to Bruce and lots of other folks.
Certainly those are the kinds of apps I want to build for the foreseeable
future. But as I survey the development of desktop apps, I don't see a
single niche category where Rev could take a dominant role and get
developers to sit up and take notice. I do, however, think that's necessary
for Rev to have a chance of much more widespread adoption among existing
developers.

On 9/2/06, jbv <jbv.silences at club-internet.fr> wrote:
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>
> May be am I making a complete mistake, and may be there isn't any way
> to bridge the gap between Firefox as an open-source project and Rev as
> a commercial product... but somehow I keep feeling that integration of a
> Transcript kernel into a browser is an option to consider...
>
> JB
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