Had a thought. Dangerous, I know. To me the power of On-Rev is two
things:
1) Opening up server side scripting to Rev users that wouldn't
otherwise go there
and
2) Bring xTalk to server-side developers in general
These are both worthy tasks, but I think it's worth differentiating
between the two. Depending on which perspective you are coming from,
any example is going to be taken differently. To put it simply, a PHP
developer won't be impressed by something they could do with roughly
the same effort in PHP. However, a Rev developer might be thrilled
because now they don't have to learn PHP!
What I'm really interested in is #2, because I'm experienced with
PHP / Perl / Java / etc on the server side. So why would I consider
onRev?
1) Integrated debugger
and
2) xTalk syntax
What I think would really shine light on onRev is an example that
shows off file handling / URL syntax and chunk expressions. In other
words, it needs to show off the strength of the language, not just the
fact that it runs server-side. So what kind of web app would lend
itself to URL syntax and chunk expressions, making it way more
efficient in xTalk than any other language?
OK, that was my thought. I didn't say I had the answer.
- Brian
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