While I have no experience with python and django, as I understand it,
you can talk about moving from php to django or from php to ruby on
rails and have similar "holy crap this is so much better" experiences.
I'm actually quite excited to have an excuse to pick up on django now.
Ryan Florence
[Writing TextMate Snippets] ( http://blog.flobro.com/ )
On Oct 27, 2009, at 5:58 AM, Piotr Zalewa wrote:
So far the only reason behind having mooshell in PHP is that it is
easier to code with.
> I can't see any reason why it couldn't equally be developed with php
I also can't see any reason why it couldn't equally be developed in
Haskell.... or Java, RoR, Keppler, Perl, Fortran (eeeh no - take it
back- no Fortran), name it. But I see the reason why it was done in
Django. I like it that way.
Well you know - I've been there (in the PHP world) for like 6 years
(was it 8?) and since a year I'm using Django (day to day). I may
tell you - I think PHP is to backend as jQuery is to JS - easy to
learn, hard to really master. I actually found learning mootools and
Django very similar - They both are more complicated on the
beginning, but after a bit of learning (few days of fun) they are
just awesome. When I have to go back to support old PHP sites with
jQuery or Prototype I have a headache. Django/Python is very well
documented, language is well structured, code is way cleaner just
because it is thought out properly. Well what can I say more? Aaah
there is a Python to Mootools class translator (not that it was used
in MooShell).
I'm not here to convince anyone to Django, but I see no point in
rewriting the whole tool to a different language just because it is
easier to someone. If you want to contribute to MooShell you may
take it as a good excuse to learn another language - there's never
enough of them once you start.
MooShell is written as a Django application and may be added to an
existing Django project pretty easily. It works like a plugin.
Integrating it takes minutes. Regardless the database behind.
There is only one framework into which I would consider to rewrite
MooShell just to proove the point it can be done. Raccoon http://raccoon.keetology.com/
If you want to contribute to front end you don't have to know Django/
Python: http://wiki.github.com/zalun/mooshell/html-js-css (please do)
Installation is now a step by step process:
http://wiki.github.com/zalun/mooshell/installation
Regards
zalun
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