Ok so has anyone here actually tried Scala & Liftweb? My opinion is that its by far the best solution for most of what we've been talking about. On Apr 18, 2012 12:24 PM, "Stuart Jansen" <sjan...@buscaluz.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-04-18 at 09:45 -0600, Stephen M. McQuay wrote: > > Also, no mention of the node.js hyperphenomenon?!?! ;) > > Since I did the node.js presentation recently, I guess I should respond. > > node.js is awesome, but... > > Most modern web development projects should be built using a framework. > There are no amazing frameworks for node.js yet. Express is okay, but > it's not all that (to say nothing of the bag of chips). > > There's several node.js frameworks with serious hype. For example: > Mojito, Meteor, and Derby (not to be confused with Apache Derby). Push > past the hype, though, and none is as exciting as Rails was at its peak. > > Not every project needs a framework. Most languages build a todo list to > demonstrate how "easy" they are to use. It's cliche at this point to > built a chat server in node.js to make the same point. But let's be > honest, most projects need more than a chat server. > > Don't get me wrong. I think node.js is really exciting. However, most of > the things that suck in other languages still suck when you're using > node. There's a handful of things that are much easier, but they're > balanced by the fact that node isn't as mature yet. > > Maybe that's why so little has been said about node. Or maybe it's > because most of Plug hasn't played with it yet. > > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
