Joel (as in, on software) made some predictions on his blog yesterday as to where the state of development on the web is going and why he thinks Google’s AJAX-y apps could be troublesome for the company if they don’t adapt well. I’m not so sure about all that, especially since it is easier to adapt on the web than it was for off-the-shelf business software written in 1989. Plus I don’t see any web/JavaScript platform becoming as ubiquitous as C++. But he makes his point well and it’s an interesting read. Maybe in three or four years we’ll realize he was right. And if he is right, could this be a second coming of Yahoo? YUI currently seems to be the most financially backed JavaScript/CSS “platform” of the type that Joel is mentioning, even if it isn’t the most popular right now. Something interesting to ponder.
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Written by on Wednesday, September 19, 2007 at 5:12 pm (EDT) Tagged as: economics geekiness software |
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