I'm not sure what to make of all the "we are going to be high traffic stuff". A bunch of hype probably inspires you to deliver a little more, but beyond that it seems pretty risky. I for one am more apt to look for flaws if you've hyped yourself too much where I would have been inclined to look for strengths otherwise.
'... A bunch of hype probably inspires you to deliver a little more, but beyond that it seems pretty risky ...'
Maybe they don't want to release because they know how much more they have to work on it. So far the biggest thing I don't see yet is a feedback mechanism ie: usage. Do they do have a beta program that someone has signed up & used?
Spock could also learn from this. My favourite feature in spock is "add an acquaintance" If you select a name (any name because there is bound to be others with the same name) and they don't have a photo, your forced to add by name alone. 9/10 times it's the wrong one. I've given up for the moment. This would have been picked up in a simple 5 minute test by a novice user to add people you know.
I wonder if powerset will make the similiar mistakes?
I'm not a fan of Powerset so far but I think this is a good idea. Yahoo embraced PHP. Google did Python. Now Powerset with Ruby. They picked a language with as much hype as themselves.
I hadn't heard about the Yahoo/PHP thing. When did that happen? And from what I've read, Google is still mostly C++ and Java, with Python a distant third: smart humans (think Norvig) have an easier time thinking in Python, but computers (see Norvig: http://norvig.com/python-lisp.html ) aren't so lucky.
No company the size of Yahoo or Google uses just one language for everything. Google has Guido on their payroll and Yahoo has Lerdorf on theirs. It's a cultural choice more than anything.
