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By: mgkimsal

mgkimsal — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:05:27 +0000

We do have the Mono world which doesn’t completely tie someone to MS-only servers and tech, but it’s probably going to be treated like a second-class citizen by most devs for years to come. :/

Having said that, I’ve noticed that Silverlight has pretty decent JS interop built in. Seems to indicate to me MS themselves are probably more concerned about interop and community than some of their most ardent supporters

By: MarkusW

MarkusW — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:03:11 +0000

@Wayne B: Generating websites using .NET may be fine, but being limited to using a .NET server (and thus, Windows) is… ehm… senseless. The times when people liked to be crippled by MS are over.

By: Matej

Matej — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 12:30:11 +0000

Wayne B you’re living in a bubble. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not personal, computer science is not about Microsoft.

By: igm

igm — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 11:50:29 +0000

You will be able to use C# as soon as there is a compiler which compiles your C# code into JavaScript!

By: Mr Incredible

Mr Incredible — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:05:33 +0000

The real shame is that more people aren’t using a freely available platform such as Javascript. It’s free. Apps written in Javascript are instantly deployable to virtually all desktops in the world regardless of operating system. There is a very capable and helpful community supporting Javascript development. Javascript is an object oriented language that is understood by all major browsers.

By: Peter Svensson

Peter Svensson — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:22:27 +0000

@Wayne B: Well, we don’t, actually. It’s like saying that people are using C# as a framework. Make sense? Thought not.

Currently the CommonJS standard is emerging, which provides a rich server-side API for javaScript framwork such as node.js.

For years we’ve already built non-closed rich clients in frameworks such as ExtJS or Dojo, using proper MVC, JSON-RPC/REST and client-side templating, hierarchical widget models, you name it.

Check some of this out, and I’ll guarantee it will make your development easier, if you’re doing web stuff at all, that is.

Cheers,
PS

By: tb

tb — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:20:11 +0000

… so Wayne B, how should we be using html/javascript? Please, humor me! I’d love to throw myself under C# to get borged to death (slowly), but you make feel so unworthy.

By: florin

florin — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:55:12 +0000

Certainly HTML 5 Canvas can be backed up by good tooling. Overall, a better solution than siverlight, flash or javafx.

Answer: let’s have more of it. Keep c#, java and the rest on the server side.

By: Wayne B

Wayne B — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:12:06 +0000

Yes, it is a bit of a downer that people are using html/javascript as an SDK.

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