Subj : node.js anyone?
To   : art
From : Nightfox
Date : Wed May 02 2012 08:38 pm

  Re: node.js anyone?
  By: art to Nightfox on Tue May 01 2012 08:01:42

 > > these days.  :)  It reminds me of how JavaScript is one of the languages
 > > supported to build Windows 8 Metro applications..

 > Yar. I have yet to start developing Metro apps against it, but I imagine
 > I'll do so later this year, I am interested, if not a little skeptical.

I'm a little skeptical too.  Using HTML and JavaScript to write native apps for
an OS seems wrong to me somehow, like an abomination. :P  HTML was originally
designed as a markup language to store a document and originally had little to
do with being part of an application.  Then they added JavaScript for some
dynamic interactivity, and then CSS, and I guess using them all to make apps is
someone's idea of a natural evolution, but it still seems odd.  From what I've
heard, it sounds like Microsoft is allowing Metro apps to be written with C# or
JavaScript with HTML.  It seems to me that C# is more structured and powerful
than JavaScript, and is also more safe in that more errors can be caught for
you at compile-time (whereas in JavaScript, many errors aren't seen until you
run the code and happen to see something blow up).

Using web technologies for apps still seems interesting though..  Around
2004-ish, I remember seeing an Amazon.com market browser "app" using
JavaScript, HTML, and Mozilla's XUL engine, made to run in Firefox, but it
looked a lot like a native app.  I don't know whatever happened to Mozilla's
XUL, but I haven't heard anything about it since then..

Nightfox


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