April 7, 2006

Why Rails Will Never Become Mainstream

Filed under: Tech Tips, Tools, Advice — shodson @ 12:15 am

Hmm, what do you think? He proposes valid points. One other problem I see with mainstream adoption is that, unlike .NET and Java, Ruby and/or Rails doesn’t have a large horizontal technology comapny, a-la Microsoft or Sun, evangelizing it with people and dollars. It has to stand on its own merits without any hype machines behind it.

Why Ruby on Rails won’t become mainstream

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