we need to publish the code for GPL. then we need to put a build
> As a rails guy I'm not at all bothered by their templating approach
> but I do see (all the time actually) where it can get just pain fugly.
> Have you ever seen HAML before Davey? Sounds like it might have a
> similar approach / syntax to what you're describing (possibly).
> http://haml.hamptoncatlin.com/tutorial/
> * * *
> I completely agree w/ the Steve Yegge post about "the next big
> language". But yeah, there is a tonne of work to be done still.
> Speaking of which -- what are the plans for contributing code back to
> Jaxer, etc? (if this is being figured out and you guys are waiting to
> do an official announcement I'll fully understand) (I can't wait!!!)
> On Jan 24, 2008 5:36 PM, Davey <geekfr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > the trimpath stuff is nice, I just dont really like the approach they
> > took with templating, which is kind of core to the whole stack. my
> > idea would be to get a templating mechanism driven with normal HTML
> > and use the id and class attributes to match the structure to json
> > objects. i got a little bit of work done on this befire i started at
> > aptana but have just been pegged for the last 6 months getting to this
> > point.
> > interesting times ahead for sure.
> > did you ever read the NBL post by steve yegge (who is working on a
> > rails port to javascript)
> >http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/02/next-big-language.html
> > On Jan 24, 5:13 pm, Brian LeRoux <brian.ler...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Yes, cool man, I look forward to that sample!
> > > I was looking at Helma last night and of course Junction seems to have
> > > some of these ideas started. I'm very sure an active community is
> > > going to spring up around these concepts (are more) in the JavaScript
> > > language space. Package mgmt could be something else that would be
> > > very useful / interesting too.
> > > On Jan 24, 4:39 pm, Davey <geekfr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > I have in a limited way, one of the forthcoming samples will have some
> > > > of the features needed to start moving towards this.
> > > > but this is a very interesting opportunity. something rails like in
> > > > end to end javascript, with dedicated support in the Studio product
> > > > would be really cool. but quite a bit of work to get there.
> > > > my simplest idea would be some kind of app generator that starts from
> > > > a simple json object containing metadata and generates the app as an
> > > > MVC container with a RESTful API.
> > > > but it requires a bunch of stuff, a template engine (preferable
> > > > unobtrusive) and a db abstration layer like ActiveRecord, all quite
> > > > meaty items in their own respect.
> > > > On Jan 23, 9:14 pm, Brian LeRoux <brian.ler...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > Its really only a matter of time before an mvc approach is going to be
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