On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 2:14 PM, C Anthony Risinger <anthony@extof.me>wrote:
the benefit to the pyjs approach is 100% client side operation, so it can run without online access. additionally, the python-DOM version (or the pyjs version if proxying thru a local daemon) could potentially direct install from the website, leading to "install now" functionality. lastly, python means you could use the same lang to write the front end and the backend, and communicate using JSON messages.
as a professional web applications developer by day, i can vouch that writing webapps requires knowledge of about 4 different haphazardly implemented "standards", requiring far to much painfully acquired knowledge. by using a library like pyjamas, you allow anyone with python experience to write incredibly functional plugins/modules, and share maintenance load. django is a great platform, but after i discovered pyjamas about 1yr ago, i haven't looked back, and am convinced that compiler technology is the only sane way to develop complex and maintainable web-based applications.
Out of curiosity why is everyone so again just writing Javascript? Everyone seems to want to write in some other language and then compile to Javascript these days. --Kaiting. -- Kiwis and Limes: http://kaitocracy.blogspot.com/