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Jonathan Rockway

1 year ago

in Rails Maintainers (and Users), Take a Hint! on Stay N' Alive

One of the problems that Catalyst suffers from is its flexibility. It's good at handling the "boring" complicated applications that make us programmers lots of money, but it's not so good about being exciting given a 10 minute screencast or demo. People tend to get more excited about flashy HTML than they do about maintainable app internals, so I think this is working against Catalyst. (Still, we have tons and tons of users... but they're all so busy making money that they don't have much time to hype it up.)


I'm not sure about this, but it seems that the target demographic of Rails and Catalyst are a bit different, so maybe we're not really competing. Rails users want a quick-n-flashy app that works well enough, Catalyst users want a solid system for doing their own thing. TMTOWTDI, after all.

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