It's kind of ironic. This morning I was seriously considering
taking a look at the
Google Web
Toolkit. This is despite the fact that GWT is targeted at Java developers,
which I am not. It's just that GWT seems like such a useful idea - I
wanted to play with it a bit.
Luckily Microsoft has, apparently,
decided to put out a framework that allows developers to build rich internet
applications without having to do a ton of JavaScript coding.
It's called Volta and at first glance
it seems pretty cool.
When I was doing a lot of work with ASP.NET
AJAX last year, the idea of coding in a more productive language and environment
than JavaScript kept coming up again and again.
There was Script# at the time, but I didn't get a chance to look into it
as much as I would have liked.
This certainly seems like a great development. Maybe this even brings .NET
developers one step closer to what Joel Spolsky described a
few month ago.
Now…on to the samples, tutorials, and docs!