tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11975115.post6595619234806827453..comments2023-10-24T03:24:31.708-07:00Comments on Pro Bono Geek: Putting Ruby into WordsSean Bakker Kellogghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05207916760145032411noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11975115.post-91080059014831032222008-08-26T11:57:00.000-07:002008-08-26T11:57:00.000-07:00I've noticed this trend as well, although I don't ...I've noticed this trend as well, although I don't think it's confined to the Ruby community. It appears the whole "web 2.0" crowd is moving to OSX. I've seen it in the Rails crowd and the TurboGears community as well. I was pretty dismayed when I attended FOSCON (a free alternative to OSCON) a couple of years ago for a Rails presentation by DHH and the whole room clicked open Macs (it was made worse by the fact the event was held at FreeGeek, which is an organization where volunteers fix older PCs and install Linux on them). Overall I found it pretty tasteless. Sort of like showing up at a food bank wearing Armani.<BR/><BR/>As far as Gems goes, I don't necessarily agree that it doesn't fit with FOSS. All mature scripting languages have a similar system (PHP/PEAR, Perl/CPAN, Python/Eggs, Ruby/Gems). Debian would like everyone to *only* use Apt, but I don't think that's a realistic goal. There are simply far too many little language-specific packages that programmers want to use and there are far too many Linux/Windows/Mac package formats for the language developers to support.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com