http://jamesonsoftware.disqus.com/enThu, 26 Jun 2008 22:07:00 -0000/2008/6/1/custom-protocols-considered-harmful-thin-rack-are-the-platform-of-the-future.html#comment-7962662<p>That person was Christian Neukirchen, and this is the post where he announced it:<br><a href="http://chneukirchen.org/blog/archive/2007/02/introducing-rack.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="http://chneukirchen.org/blog/archive/2007/02/introducing-rack.html">http://chneukirchen.org/blo...</a></p>Jeremy PinnixThu, 26 Jun 2008 22:07:00 -0000/2008/6/1/custom-protocols-considered-harmful-thin-rack-are-the-platform-of-the-future.html#comment-7962637<p>Thanks for the interesting article. I was just raving to someone not 2 hours ago how neutral intermediaries like Rack were the way of the future, replacing the tight coupling and inflexibility of Mongrel et al; I was thinking of writing up my thoughts but you've said it better than I could.</p><p>One thing I find interesting that you didn't mention is the power of a single person's initiative and how it can be amplified by open source. One day we didn't have Rack, then someone decided a neutral API sitting between these components was a good idea, coded it up, released it, and bingo - the best practise of hooking together servers and applications in Ruby was turned on its head, by one person, in what, a few weeks? And now we have a de facto standard, we can plug and play servers and applications with the greatest of ease, and interoperability got that much better.</p><p>I don't want to sound soppy but that is inspiring and one of the reasons I love the open source community so much.</p><p>Thanks again!</p>ShoSat, 07 Jun 2008 11:25:00 -0000