Move Over AJAX, Make Room for ARAX 409
sasserstyl writes "eWeek reports that Microsoft's Silverlight platform will support Ruby client-side scripting, enabling ARAX — or Asynchronous Ruby and XML. Would be cool to have the option to script client-side in something other than Javascript. 'In essence, using ARAX, Ruby developers would not have to go through the machinations of using something like the RJS (Ruby JavaScript) utility, where they write Ruby code and RJS generates JavaScript code to run on the client, Lam said. "Sure, you could do it that way, but then at some point you might have to add some JavaScript code that adds some custom functionality on the client yourself," he said. "So there's always that sense of, 'Now I'm in another world. And wouldn't it be nice if I have this utility class I wrote in Ruby...' Today if I want to use it in the browser I have to port it to JavaScript. Now I can just run it in the browser."'"
Re:Um, my browser doesn't support Ruby (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Move over ARAX (Score:4, Funny)
I've put together a language and framework.
I call them Diamond and Diamond-On-Wings.
They're not very good... rather cumbersome and don't scale very well, but they give you something flashy with only 3 lines of code, and I've got a ton of amateur developers who haven't learned well enough not to use it yet on board.
Can I have a blowjob too?
Come on... Developers, Developers, Developers!!! and all that jazz...
On your knees, fat man!
Re:Um, my browser doesn't support Ruby (Score:5, Funny)
Hmmm... (Score:5, Funny)
Maybe we need an infrastructure for this. An infrastructure that would be common among multiple languages. And then you could run any language that can target this common language infrastructure. And if you manage it properly it could be secure....
See, that's sharp isn't it? Of course, it might seem like I'm parroting a bunch of buzzwords in this monologue, but I really have a message... I'm not just making small talk. I think that's enough pearls of wisdom in one post.
--JoeRe:Do we really need this? (Score:5, Funny)
RJS (Score:2, Funny)
Ruby in Jails ?
Uruk-Hai (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Um, my browser doesn't support Ruby (Score:2, Funny)
C and C++, on the other hand, have been around forever, they're old and stodgy, yet you know where they stand and how things are going to work out. You're not going to get anything revolutionary out of them, and you're not going to be able to get a story on Slashdot and other news sites about this awesome new thing that you couldn't do the same way in another language.
Use arax, raggy! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Um, my browser doesn't support Ruby (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Um, my browser doesn't support Ruby (Score:5, Funny)
And ARAX isn't as good as AJAX (Score:5, Funny)
Who was this Arax fellow? What wars did he fight in?
Re:Use arax, raggy! (Score:4, Funny)
Daphne: It's old man Gates from the haunted software company!
Velma: We figured it out after unraveling the clue - Mr. Ballmer was responsible for the ghostly floating chairs!
Bill: And we'd've gotten away with it too! If it weren't for you meddling script kiddies!
Re:Um, my browser doesn't support Ruby (Score:2, Funny)
Why only people like us come here (Score:5, Funny)
rails [railway-technology.com]
Ruby on rails [wordpress.com]
Soap [alleco.com.au]
Ajax [mediacrumb.com]
Ajax soap [orgill.com]
Python [animal-world.com]
Perl [unc.edu]
Java [blogs.com]
Is it any wonder normal people think we're strange? (Ignore the rest of this comment, as it presently has too few characters per line (currently 8.5) but thankfully I can paste slashdot's retarded "error" message in the comment to correct this travesty)
Re:Um, my browser doesn't support Ruby (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Um, my browser doesn't support Ruby (Score:3, Funny)
ARAX? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Simply the most snore worthy post of the day. (Score:3, Funny)
Or we define the web as a meta-processor and write wasm (web assembler) to interpret assembly code for this processor. Then we can have AAAX!
ramble much? (Score:3, Funny)