What are the Next Programming Models?

jg21 writes "In this opinion piece, Simeon Simeonov contemplates what truly new programming models have emerged recently, and nominates two: RIAs and what he calls 'composite applications' (i.e. using Java, .NET or any other programming language). He notes that Microsoft will be trying to achieve RIAs in Avalon, but that it's late out of the gate. He also cites David Heinemeier Hansson's Ruby on Rails project as showing great promise. 'As both a technologist and an investor I'm excited about the future,' Simeonov concludes. It's a thoughtful piece, infectious in its quiet enthusiasm. But what new models are missing from his essay?"

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[OmniVector]

I think you'd be better off with rails. The base library for ruby is much nicer (and much better documented) than pythons', and the rails community is already rather huge and growing. Another important factor is there are now a million python projects all trying to take a stab at what rails can do, none which realize that rails is capable of doing what it can because of ruby. This also has the added side effect of splitting apart the entire python web community into splinters. You'll have one hell of a time getting SkunkWeb up to par with the features of rails even today. Imagine how far behind it will be in a few years when the (likely) chance is that skunkweb will be one of the projects to fall-out after the python web framework bust.