On Jul 12, 2011, at 10:45 PM, nic wrote: > > Things like: > > A Wiki / Blog / CMS / Forum > An Online Store > A Personal Accounting System > A Media Center > etc ... > > The focus would be on producing complete usable and beautiful > applications.
That's a very ambitious goal. I use, for a couple of purposes, WordPress and MediaWiki, both PHP-based. The reason I use them has nothing to do with their language, and everything to do with the fact that each of them has dozens, if not hundreds, of developers working on them and their ecological system. And that's not because of language/framework overhead. It's because there's *lot* of functionality in those packages. The open-source world is littered with half-baked, poorly maintained alternatives to the major packages, including more than a couple based on web2py. I think it'd be great to have software like that that I could work on myself when I felt the need and had the time, but I think it's important to figure out what the compelling use case is for them, and how the necessary thousands of developer hours are going to get committed and coordinated to make it happen.
