snobbery
The Web 2.0 Mess
Monday, August 11th, 2008 | Code | No Comments
Why does nothing fit together anymore?
Why do we have to go out of our way to stitch together all the parts of our scripting languages? It feels kind of like we need a back-to-square-one sort of movement to drag ourselves out of this Web 2.0 thing. Of course, the people who have to deal with the messy parts (read: programming) have no say in the matter. All these people online want to see who their friends’ friends are and what they’re doing. Maybe send a message. Look them up on google maps according to their flickr photos that they found on facebook via some poor soul’s third party Google Web Toolkit app that their company has demanded of them. The fact of the matter is that programmers now, more than ever before, have to know how three different compilers fit together along with some weird voodoo library to generate “good” javascript to design their pages. All that Web 2.0 seems to mean is finding the easiest way possible to automatically generate javascript.
Let’s face it, the internet is aging, as are all the languages that come with it. › Continue reading