On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 6:47 PM, Páll Haraldsson <[email protected]> wrote:
> All joking aside, you got me intrigued. If there is no good language, then > what is it you want? Why is web-programming special? And wouldn't Julia be > as least as good a fit (for server side) as any other language? > I do not want to hijack the julia list, so I will be short. imho, a web language should allow you to pretend that you are programming the GUI on a single desktop. the web is special: the app is not running on one computer, but on one client and one server, and they are glued together by many protocols, not just one [like X]. the (compiled) language output should be transparent and generate all the html5/javascript/ajax/cgi/etc. necessary to implement the tasks. think "intelligent Tk" that can work server/client on the web, if you wish. a GUI designer could itself then be integrated to make it even better. one should not have to write both server-side cgi programs and client-side javascript for one application. one should not even have to learn javascript... Ivo Welch ([email protected]) http://www.ivo-welch.info/
