Darn... I can't test it as I am using a mac... but it looks like it might make Crunchy development much less interesting... What do you think?
André Roberge | Homepage | 07/05/02 - 10:26 pm | #

Good commentary here:

Silly season

but it's gonna fall on deaf ears around here...
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Nicola Larosa | Homepage | 07/05/02 - 10:38 pm | #

lol - something is certainly falling on deaf ears.
Fuzzyman | Homepage | 07/05/02 - 10:51 pm | #

Andr é: just because Andrzej couldn't get it working doesn't mean it won't work for you. It doesn't take long to try it.

I certainly wouldn't give up on Crunchy. The PyGame and sound backends sound great.

Maybe the tutorial markup can even be ported to Silverlight?
Fuzzyman | Homepage | 07/05/02 - 10:53 pm | #

It all sounds interesting -- but apparently they didn't actually try it out on a Mac before declaring that it works on the Mac :-(
Michael | 07/05/03 - 8:55 am | #

Mark Pilgrim says what needs to be said. Sure, it's very nice having things running in some kind of browser, but this isn't "rich client programming for web-apps" or "cross-platform and cross-browser" - it's GUI programming in a Microsoft-controlled environment that can load Web pages, where if the open source community is lucky and interested enough, Miguel de Icaza and friends get to run behind the bandwagon.

That it has been mentioned as some kind of eradicator of Flash, Flex or whatever other proprietary Adobe technology is the cool thing amongst the shiny brigade tells us as much as we need to know about the target audience. Again, Mr Pilgrim says it all.
Paul Boddie | 07/05/03 - 10:31 am | #

The thing is these kind of propriatory attempts to hijack the web have a history of failing - flash has come the closest to succeeding but even that falls a long way short. Java found a different niche - but if you remember in its early days this is exactly how it was sold.

Don't get me wrong - The DLR is very exciting - so too is the fact that Microsofts hires from the world of dynamic languages are making good headway in the company. But it is more likely to change the windows desktop than the web.

I have no doubt whatsoever that there will appear a richer web platform - but it is not going to come from any one company.
mark | Homepage | 07/05/03 - 10:45 am | #

I like John Lam's (brief) response to Mark Pilgrim:

Mark Pilgrim Hates Everything
http://www.iunknown.com/2007/05/ ...rlight_do_.html

Possibly a longer response than is warranted, mind...
Fuzzyman | Homepage | 07/05/03 - 1:55 pm | #