"Ruby on Rails Won't Make It In 2007 and Forget About AJAX"

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"Ruby on Rails Won't Make It In 2007 and Forget About AJAX"

I would concur. I have no evidence to suggest that you "hate" JavaScript. But I didn't base my assessment of your bias on a single article. Back in "A Cup of AJAX", you wrote "AJAX applications have to rely on JavaScript, assume the expert knowledge of this not-so-interesting language." While it is not as elegant or strongly typed as Java or .NET, the more I use it, the more interesting and powerful I find the language. It really is well suited for its space in the sandbox of a browser (kissing cousin to the VM). Next, you write "The users will be more and more demanding, and you'll be spending most of your time on adding more bells and whistles to the GUI instead of solving business problems." First, I'd love to have that kind of problem. That means we're doing something right. Second, that's life. Whether working with Struts, Swing, or ATL. Third, we're finding a huge ca...

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@nicholaslemay » 26 Jan '13, 8pm
RT @AndyMaleh: For some history comedy! Bold prediction RT @elliottkember: "Ruby on Rails Won't Make It In 2007 and Forget About AJAX" [link]
@AndyMaleh » 26 Jan '13, 6pm
For some history comedy! Bold prediction RT @elliottkember: "Ruby on Rails Won't Make It In 2007 and Forget About AJAX" [link]
@Looukey » 26 Jan '13, 6pm
Not sure why this showed up on my @prismatic feed, but it is interesting - Rails Won't Make It in 2007 and Forget AJAX [link]
@leonardinius » 26 Jan '13, 5pm
Expert opinions :) "Ruby on Rails Won't Make It in 2007 and Forget About AJAX" [link]
@qrush » 26 Jan '13, 4pm
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