[arch-general] We want to help

[Kaiting Chen]

On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 2:14 PM, C Anthony Risinger <anthony at 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.

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