{"id":67,"date":"2007-04-17T21:01:36","date_gmt":"2007-04-18T02:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alarmingdevelopment.org\/?p=67"},"modified":"2007-04-18T07:12:48","modified_gmt":"2007-04-18T12:12:48","slug":"silverlight-on-rails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alarmingdevelopment.org\/?p=67","title":{"rendered":"Silverlight on Rails"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am looking to move to a better UI platform for the next version of Subtext. The two contenders are Flash and WPF. As it happens, I have stumbled into the first skirmishes of a major technology war between Adobe and Microsoft. I have a hunch about what Microsoft’s next move will be. In the finest traditions of the blogosphere I am rushing to broadcast my unfounded speculation.<\/p>\n

Background: Silverlight<\/a> is a subset of the new WPF UI in Vista, designed to run cross-platform and cross-browser. Flash is Flash – videos and cartoons – but all grown up now in version 9 as a real programming language (Actionscript 3) with a component model (Flex 2). The market is RIA’s (Rich Internet Applications). You know, web apps that are as fancy as desktop apps. A lot of frisky 20-somethings think this is going to be the next big pile of fast bucks. Ryan Stewart<\/a> has been doing some good coverage of the arena.<\/p>\n

Microsoft’s technology is arguably superior to Adobe’s, but they are starting from zero market share. Worse, Microsoft’s development toolchain only runs on Windows. Cool hackers<\/a> wouldn’t be caught dead<\/a> on Windows anymore. Microsoft will officially announce Silverlight in two weeks<\/a>, but has signaled they have a surprise<\/a> in store.<\/p>\n

I predict the surprise will be the integration of Ruby into Silverlight, done by John Lam<\/a>. Essentially "RIA’s on Rails". This will address two of Microsoft’s problems: allowing cross-platform development, and being cool. You will be able to develop Silverlight apps in Ruby on a Mac. That is certifiably cool these days.<\/p>\n

You heard it here first. If I’m wrong, I’ll just delete this post \ud83d\ude42 . Another day I will post about how despicable it is for these self-infatuated famous hackers to be discriminating against programmers because of the logos on their laptops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am looking to move to a better UI platform for the next version of Subtext. The two contenders are Flash and WPF. As it happens, I have stumbled into the first skirmishes of a major technology war between Adobe and Microsoft. I have a hunch about what Microsoft’s next move will be. In the … <\/p>\n

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