Looking forward to 2009

Third in the lists series.

Here are the tech things I’m looking forward to in 2009 (most related to Web development):

• Watching Merb and Rails merge
• Adoption of Python 3, even though Python still irks me
• DataMapper 1.0
• A Web framework that’s more of a library, less of a harness to plug things into†
• Hearing more from Arc

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†That is, I want to be able to run my application from the command line…

/home/webapps/myblog $ ./myblog.rb start

…or write a program that incorporates it…

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
require 'myblog'
if __FILE__ == $0
  MyBlog::Controllers::Posts.do_stuff
end

…in the way of normal Ruby applications.