A really great Coding Horror post (whats going on: TC has been pretty good this week, Jeff is ranting about good stuff... ;)). Anyway:
Writing Photoshop, Word, or Excel in JavaScript makes zero engineering sense, but it's inevitable. It will happen. In fact, it's already happening. Just look around you.
With that (very astute) comment in mind - is it time to look at Javascript as a client side egine.
By which I mean if the future is going to be web based (and with Office Online and Chome OS it is hard to argue that is not the overall "plan") then is JS a sufficient engine to work with. Do we need something a little mor powerful - with tighter bindings to the browser, filesystem (sanboxed obviously) and the web?
Writing Photoshop, Word, or Excel in JavaScript makes zero engineering sense, but it's inevitable. It will happen. In fact, it's already happening. Just look around you.
With that (very astute) comment in mind - is it time to look at Javascript as a client side egine.
By which I mean if the future is going to be web based (and with Office Online and Chome OS it is hard to argue that is not the overall "plan") then is JS a sufficient engine to work with. Do we need something a little mor powerful - with tighter bindings to the browser, filesystem (sanboxed obviously) and the web?