Comments on: What’s the most productive language/framework/tool you’ve ever worked with?

By: Dan Kohn

Dan Kohn — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 21:05:33 +0000

Have you tried RadRails as a Rails IDE. They do a very nice job. TextMate on OS X is also excellent.

By: Wilkes Joiner

Wilkes Joiner — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 14:18:31 +0000

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.

By: trans

trans — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 14:01:49 +0000

Visual Studio –too bad it costs major $$ and only runs on Windows.

Zope is pretty good too.

By: Martin DeMello

Martin DeMello — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 10:50:19 +0000

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.

By: Jason Watkins

Jason Watkins — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 06:09:53 +0000

to date? rails.

in the future however i suspect something very nice may emerge out of Io.