OpenEuphoria

What we really need...

• Posted by irv at take.maxleft.com Nov 12, 2002
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Do we need a 'killer app' to make Euphoria more popular?
I say no.

No, because most people do not know or care what language their 
applications are written in. Would you stop using your favorite and most
productive app just because you discovered that it had been written in 
VisualWhooPas-2.0?

Didn't think so.

No, because any competent programmer knows that any app can be 
written in any language. What matters is _how easily_ it can be written 
in a given language.

What DO we need?

To make Euphoria more popular among programmers ~ who else is going 
to use it? ~ we need to honestly evaluate where Euphoria excels, and where 
it fails. RDS has done a good job of emphasizing Euphoria's strong points: 
speed and simplicity, but speed and simplicity apparently aren't enough.

Consider Perl, Python, Java, Ruby, Rebol.....
Euphoria is smaller and faster than any of the above.
Euphoria is more readable than perl or java, and (arguably) python and ruby 
as well. 

Yet perl, python, java and ruby each have 10, 100, 1000 times as many users 
as Euphoria. Why? If you really expect Euphoria to be more popular, you'll 
have to be able to answer that question. 

Let's see what you think.
Regards,
Irv