[FoRK] Leopard scripting

[Luis Villa]

On Jan 18, 2008 11:47 AM, Justin Mason <jm at jmason.org> wrote:

> > I'm very interested in the notion of Desktop Rails; it seems to me
> > that a big part of why desktop applications are dying is that web
> > development frameworks just seem much faster on the development side
> > (albeit less rich.)
>
> That, plus there's no[*] portability issues -- "write once, run anywhere"
> has finally happened; and also, everyone now has multiple machines they
> need to access their stuff from (in most cases it's work + home).

Oh, and maintenance, and security, and... a lot of other reasons. But
there are still some use cases where local software is nice to have,
and those advantages go away. But then the relative ease of Rails or
other RAD web tools still blows anything on the desktop away, pretty
much.

Luis