Ian Bicking wrote: [snip] > But as Ajax becomes part of the normal web developer's toolkit, what > Rails provides won't be that important. I think things will change > radically as actual Javascript developer communities start to come > about -- right now they are uncommon and usually attached to other > projects (like Rails or Nevow), but that's not driven by any > technical issue, just by cultural issues (Javascript isn't the core > skill for many developers). I believe strongly that the future of > Ajax needs to be backend-neutral.
I've observed fairly closely the evolution of Kupu (kupu.oscom.org) over the last couple of years. The Kupu developers are exactly as you describe; an actual Javascript developer community. They originate in the Zope world in this case and thus are Python hackers (which is a good start for Javascript, as Javascript is like a badly broken Python, which is a compliment to Javascript :), though they're not *attached* to it -- Kupu is backend-neutral and used far outside the Zope context. A nice article about Kupu appeared recently on onlamp: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/04/28/kupu.html The Javascript world is nice currently as it isn't so filled up with actual developers yet, though is rapidly changing. A competent developer who writes Javascript can do stuff that few people have done before fairly easily, just by applying knowledge from, say, Python development. Regards, Martijn _______________________________________________ Web-SIG mailing list Web-SIG@python.org Web SIG: http://www.python.org/sigs/web-sig Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/web-sig/archive%40mail-archive.com
