Basically, you're right. The only way to get people to work on a
technology is to get interest in it. Tcl doesn't have much interest
these days, and Tcl on the web has none, so getting any of this to work
would be a lot of thankless work for a group of people who just have a
desire to do it.
We'd never be able to compete with the freight train that is Rails.
There's too much a push for it. But, before Rails, Java was king of the
heap. The mountain can change at any time and without warning. Someone
just has to decide to change it.
Damon
RoR is a lot of good practices all rolled into one. Tcl could
definitely do most of what it does, although it does fall down pretty
badly in terms of OO due to the lack of garbage collection. The thing
about RoR is that it has a ton of people working on it and with it, so
there is really no competition unless you can improve on it by an
order of magnitude (as RoR did in some ways with PHP and Java). Just
equalling what they've done isn't enough any more, because no one
cares about Tcl.
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