On 12/20/07, Kurt Griffiths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > With that in mind, there is no denying that the overall complexity (and, > therefore, tendency toward code entropy) goes up the bigger you system gets. > Although languages like Ruby can certainly reduce the amount of lines you > write, the lack of really great tool support means you reach the point of > unmanageability (is that a word?) faster (I am reaching that point right now > with a Rails app at work).
I found that the lack of a *really* good ORM (ActiveRecord was a good first try but they really should have admitted its limitations and designed something better by now... or just copied sqlalchemy :) hurt Rails a lot more than lack of tool support. Web apps are inherently pretty loosely coupled; I never felt like I needed an IDE just to navigate or make sense of things. -Jonathan /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
