Brett, How about building a system that compiles a Python program (possibly annotated) to an AJAX program? That is, it analyzes the program to determine what's appropriate and possible for client-side and server-side, figures out the optimal network API (reduce latency, reduce calls, reduce data transfer, increase responsiveness), generates server-side Jython to run in Tomcat (or Python for mod_python), and client-side XHTML, CSS, and Javascript to implement the browser-based portion of the application. Oddities of browser implementations and Javascript VMs would be contained in the compiler and automatically pushed into the generated code.
This would be a tremendously useful advance in building distributed systems that work with the Web. The current approach to AJAX is a bit like carpentry with old hand tools. You'd probably also push Python to higher levels of language-ness. > Tough question. Language design is the over-reaching area that I > love. Basically how can powerful language ideas be presented in a > easy-to-use fashion. Could even generalize even farther to just > making programming easier through the language. And for some reason > networking protocols and concurrent programming have always caught my > eye Bill _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
