Ruby/Rails is bloated as hell. And it doesn’t even handle multithreading yet–you have these thin implementations that consume all these resources per-instance. Very disappointed.

Python crowd is making useless observations and syntax changes such as “my_var = value if condition else other_value” — big friggen deal– saw that this morning and renewed by intention to go back to lisp.

For food, I’ll code in PHP and Javascript. And Java when I have to. Another bloated overengineered pile of crap. I just don’t care what weird syntactic thing is of concern to pythonists any more. And Ruby…what bloat, unbelievable. Just do it in PHP.

Flex/Air? Huh? Who really needs it?

Best regards,
-R

Adobe isn’t trying to win the server technology side of things (that is too fragmented), however Flash/Flex + Air has a very good chance of becoming the standard RIA client development platform.

The flexcoders mail list is the busiest mail list I’m on.

What is very good (from an adoption point of view) is that Ebay are developing an AIR client. Not sure if Adobe and Google are partnering on projects as well.

I personally think Air + Flex will change my career path.

Stunning work Adobe.