On Jul 11, 2:42 am, Adam Tauno Williams <awill...@whitemice.org> wrote: > > But Open Source land is simply too fragmented. There are too many > database bindings [and RAD requires something like an ORM (think > SQLalchemy)] and far too many GUI toolkits [Qt, Gtk, wx, and the list > goes on and on]. > > Nothing can muster the gravity required to bring a quality RAD tool into > existence.
Why "too many" ? Natural selection is a GoodThing. Python is known as "the language with more web frameworks than keywords", and this doesn't prevent some of these frameworks to be 1/ pretty good and 2/ becoming de facto standards. > I also suspect - seeing some of the articles that float across the > FLOSS-o-sphere mentioning "RAD" - that many Open Source developers have > never had the pleasure [yes, it is a pleasure] of using a professional > RAD tool. This is slightly arrogant. Did you occur to you that quite a few OSS developers may have at least as much experience as you do with these kind of tools and just happen to actually prefer the unix way of doing things ? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
