40. (with egg)

Tramendus response to my posts to the newsgroups and mailing lists! As of this writing:

• 30 40 52 59 responses in comp.lang.ruby and comp.lang.smalltalk, most cross-posted to both.
• Almost 40 responses to the rails@lists.rubyonrails.org thread. Read it here.

I'll be combiling a list of interesting items soon, but overall themes include:

• Smalltalk "knows" about it's development environment, helping it overcome a lot of issues that Ruby has.
• Java is combiled + statically typed, helping it overcome issues that Ruby has.
• Smalltalk and Java have funded projects and are supported by the business community.
• That said, most of the issues can be overcome in time.
• Update: people are passionate about their favorite text editors.
• Update: the "we don't need IDEs" vs. "IDEs are almost essential" debate rages on.