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Do you really see many startups moving to RIA? Maybe it's because I'm from Hicksburgh, but I don't know of one company here that's doing anything serious with RIA. We even have one guy doing an 'embedded' HTML5 app, using <video>... Most of the websites that I use aren't using RIA, either. Am I missing out on a big trend?

And why can Ruby not "fight with Python and PHP on their markets?" Care to elaborate a bit?

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>fight with Python and PHP on their markets?

PHP has lots of opensource web-apps: OpenX, Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal, phpBB, SugarCRM, Magento eCommerce, MediaWiki you can just download and run on any hosting in couple of minutes. Every app has a community behind it. Haven't heard about anything as popular built with Rails(except Redmine).

Python - studied in Universities like MIT and can be found in any UNIX/Linux distribution. Lots of bindings and libraries(SciPy, NumPy, Twisted). Ruby bindings and libraries are far behind.

Gotcha. I would agree about PHP, but not much about Python. It's true that universities are starting to get into Python, and not so much ruby, but bindings and libraries? I guess we're just trying to accomplish different things.

Maybe, I was evaluating Ruby for my university tasks even before Pyhon, but found a lack of good GUI and Plot/Math libraries.

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