On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 05:23:24PM -0500, Mark Galbreath wrote: > which then begs the question, why RoR and not Catalyst?
Better marketing, basically. Also the attraction of something new, written in a language about which people have written a lot of new things, and which hasn't attracted the negative mindshare that Perl, PHP, J2EE Java, ASP etc all have generated in some quarters. There's a school of thought that says that geeks are more resistant to marketing, or at least better at noticing when they're being marketed at. The number of geeks using Powerbooks, RoR, and ... geektoys in general, proves the obvious flaws in this argument. The trick, then, is working out how to market stuff like Catalyst beyond the Perl community. Perl has criticisms of line-noise resemblence etc levelled at it. We can't do anything about that, really. But a demonstration video of the quality of the RoR viral marketing would make a real difference. ...Not that I, personally, have sufficient CFT to produce the damn thing, you understand. I'll just fling poo from the sidelines. /joel
