What’s the most productive language/framework/tool you’ve ever worked with?
Okay, a call to arms.
What toolsets/frameworks etc have you ever used that you have instinctively found to be productive (And which have continued to be so).
At first thought I believed RubyOnRails was and is my most productive web dev language, but I feel it is missing a true IDE to really work.
And by productive, I’m thinking of user visible features and business applications. A statement that lisp allows me to solve towers of hanoi in the least amount of code really doesn’t ring my bell!
Have you tried RadRails as a Rails IDE. They do a very nice job. TextMate on OS X is also excellent.
I’ve been a big Ruby fan for a few years now, but last year, while RoR was taking off, I began spending a lot of time with Smalltalk (Squeak in particular), and now I can’t leave! It’s really kind of frustrating. I spend a few years with Ruby and leave it as soon as it really gains some traction. Maybe I just want to complain about lang X should be more popular than it is ;). Anyway, here is a good post by Avi Bryant on Smalltalk. I’ve also posted a video on my blog of debugging in Smalltalk and Seaside here.
Visual Studio –too bad it costs major $$ and only runs on Windows.
Zope is pretty good too.
Not really a framework, but Ruby itself - it’s let me sit down, hammer out a few lines of code to solve my problem, and move on, better than any other language I’ve used.
to date? rails.
in the future however i suspect something very nice may emerge out of Io.