Comments on: Rhino on Rails: JavaScript MVC on the server

By: ilazarte

ilazarte — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 19:12:29 +0000

That comic is geekt.aculo.us!

By: Marty

Marty — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 14:27:44 +0000

Ajax in 2002 was just a nifty/nasty little iframe trick. it was FM at the time… BAU today :)

Awesome comic.

By: polterguy

polterguy — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:48:33 +0000

Really funny :)))
Though Ajax as a word wasn’t invented before February 2005 by Jesse James. In regards to doing Ajax in OO you could follow my link ;)
Fully fledged Ajax writing nothing else than C# and “standard” ASP.NET.

By: Venkman

Venkman — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 08:03:53 +0000

nathan: “full on OOP”

I guess you mean “full OOP” but… what’s that anyway? What makes some people think that prototype-based OO is any less complete than class-based OO or that it lacks something? Even more on this, why do people associate the second with “just OO”?

By: nathany

nathany — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 20:22:47 +0000

@Dion, happened upon your blog last night. Thanks for doing the interview. Also commenting just because of the awesome cartoon… I’m surprised he still has all his hair!! ^_^

It was quite amusing when Steve mentioned using GWT for the server side.

@sentientholon, good call… the term Ajax wasn’t coined until 2005, though the infrastructure to do it (esp. XMLHttpRequest) began in 2000 [according to Wikipedia]. Took a while to get the buzz/hype.

@tj111, JavaScript is quite object-oriented, the way of accomplishing OOP quite foreign (based on Self, not C++). Alas, aren’t we all patiently waiting for JavaScript 2 and full on OOP, combined with something like Jaxer or Rhino on the server.

- nathan.

By: Mikael Bergkvist

Mikael Bergkvist — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 19:48:37 +0000

I’ll buy that.

By: jkuhnert

jkuhnert — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 19:37:40 +0000

@Mikael

I don’t agree with your statement. Yes, a programmers skill does make a big difference no matter what language you use – but every language also has its advantages and weaknesses just as much as every programmer does. Great programmer + great language = maximum results.

By: Mikael Bergkvist

Mikael Bergkvist — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 18:17:17 +0000

As always, it has to do less with the language, and more with how skilled the programmer is with the language.

By: tj111

tj111 — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:36:26 +0000

Commenting just because the comic is awesome. Although I don’t think javascript has the OO features necassary for a well written server-side app.

By: Jack Slocum

Jack Slocum — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:31:33 +0000

The comic was hilarious! :D

By: JohnDeHope3

JohnDeHope3 — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:27:38 +0000

What I’d really like to know is how I could replace JavaScript on the client. I’d so much prefer to have C# or something with more mainstream OO features. I know there is some way to do this in firefox isn’t there?

By: sentientholon

sentientholon — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:00:40 +0000

JavaScript on the client with Ajax in 2002? Hmm…

Seriously though, very cool, I’m definitely going to check this out.