Wow. I have to say I’m quite surprised by the response I got to my post yesterday. It was written in frustration, kept under wraps for four months and lived it’s life on the edge of the post button and the trash can. I expected 10 friends to read it.

At the time of writing it’s racked up 46,840 page views, 210 comments on hacker news, 419 comments on reddit and a lot of tweets. Most of the feedback I got was positive, it seems like there are a lot of frustrated .netters looking around for greener pastures. So many great stories in the comments above which I heartily recommend perusing.

I can say things have progressed really well for me. I worked on a web project written with Rails 3, RSpec and MongoDB. Totally open source stack, totally awesome communities and totally fun! There was a lot to learn and I found stacks of great documentation as well as a really helpful local and international community.

Right now Rails has 1084 forks and contributions from at least 700 people. Sinatra, which is another kick ass little web framework has 227 forks and contributions from 58 people. The community behind these projects have an unparalleled and unseen before passion and momentum!

I’ve also spent the last month building an iPad game so I’ve been busy learning Objective-C and XCode. Stay tuned if you want to hear more about the game’s development. I’m also going to keep writing about my experiences with ruby, objective-c and other languages and frameworks I get into.

It’s not the tools, the editors or the language. It’s definitely not the drag and drop designers. It’s the simple ideas of freedom, community and having fun hacking. That’s the future of software development.