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Morfik and Rapid Development of Modern Web Apps

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the only-revolutionary-if-it-takes-hold dept.

Bobby Jasper writes to tell us that The Firebird Database Community News has an interesting writeup on Morfik, a new development tool for beginning web applications. Morfik boasts increased developer productivity going so far as to draw comparisons between themselves and the current industry as VB 1.0 was to GUI development. After five years of development they are getting ready to release an evaluation version of their software, might be worth a look.

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  1. Well its got the buzzwords by Viol8 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "Revolutionary new", "smart client" , "feature-rich", "unplugged", "ground breaking".

    Perhaps I'm a cynic but I always feel that a products real value is inversely proportional to
    the amount of marketdroid BS in the write-ups. If I'm correct then this is just Yet-Another-IDE
    that is (and wow, like this is so radical dude , well if would be if it was 1990 again) - a Smart
    Client! Jeez... how many times we been here before?

  2. Lot's of nice words, but where is the software? by master_p · · Score: 4, Insightful

    For something so grand as they claim, their first job would be to post an evaluation download for everyone to see. I followed the links, but I found nothing; I only found lots of buzzwords, claims and hype.

    I don't claim Morfik is vaporware. But let's see it first, and then we can say if it is indeed 'VB 1.0 for the web'.

  3. Languages & Morfik by jurt1235 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Morfik claims to be the next generation IDE. Totally for the webbrowser. So what do they build it with: Delphi.
    That is not being true to yourself. Build an AJAX version than to show the power of what you believe in.
    An AJAX version would also make the more and more preferred development environments accessible to them: Mac OS X and Linux (Around me I hear more and more developers choosing for Linux as their main platform, and if Apple would release OS X for the cheap intel hardware, that they will try that too, at least just to see).

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  4. Why is this even on /.?! by Qa1 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is basically a commercial for some source software package. They haven't released code. They haven't even releasd a closed source evaluation version. All they "released" is some web page with lots of hysterical marketing hype and unsubstantiated vague buzzwords ("JST").

    So why, again, is this on /.?

  5. What the fuckity fuck? by kmmatthews · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How can anyone possibly claim this isn't an ad?

    It's an "article" for a CLOSED SOURCE, WIN32 VAPORWARE PRODUCT that LIKENS ITSELF TO VISUAL BASIC.

    For god sakes, that's like saying "WOW!!! THIS IS AS FUN AS AIDS!"

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