Move Over AJAX, Make Room for ARAX

sasserstyl writes "eWeek reports that Microsoft's Silverlight platform will support Ruby client-side scripting, enabling ARAX — or Asynchronous Ruby and XML. Would be cool to have the option to script client-side in something other than Javascript. 'In essence, using ARAX, Ruby developers would not have to go through the machinations of using something like the RJS (Ruby JavaScript) utility, where they write Ruby code and RJS generates JavaScript code to run on the client, Lam said. "Sure, you could do it that way, but then at some point you might have to add some JavaScript code that adds some custom functionality on the client yourself," he said. "So there's always that sense of, 'Now I'm in another world. And wouldn't it be nice if I have this utility class I wrote in Ruby...' Today if I want to use it in the browser I have to port it to JavaScript. Now I can just run it in the browser."'"

Comments

Re:Um, my browser doesn't support Ruby

[Reverend528]

Last week they embraced ruby. Now they are extending it. I can't wait to see what they'll do next!

Re:Move over ARAX

[ShieldW0lf]

Hey Balmer!

I've put together a language and framework.

I call them Diamond and Diamond-On-Wings.

They're not very good... rather cumbersome and don't scale very well, but they give you something flashy with only 3 lines of code, and I've got a ton of amateur developers who haven't learned well enough not to use it yet on board.

Can I have a blowjob too?

Come on... Developers, Developers, Developers!!! and all that jazz...

On your knees, fat man!

Re:Um, my browser doesn't support Ruby

[SatanicPuppy]

I'm not seeing a problem.

Hmmm...

[Mr Z]

Maybe we need an infrastructure for this. An infrastructure that would be common among multiple languages. And then you could run any language that can target this common language infrastructure. And if you manage it properly it could be secure....

See, that's sharp isn't it? Of course, it might seem like I'm parroting a bunch of buzzwords in this monologue, but I really have a message... I'm not just making small talk. I think that's enough pearls of wisdom in one post.

--Joe

Re:Do we really need this?

[urcreepyneighbor]

Silverlight is going to allow .NET code, not just Ruby. Sweet jesus. It's ActiveX 2.

RJS

[boldi]

And when Microsoft sues You...
Ruby in Jails ?

Uruk-Hai

[Anonymous Coward]

this reminds me of the scene in the lord of the rings where Saruman proclaims he has successfully bred Orcs and Goblins and that crazy thing hatches out of a slimey membrane.

Re:Um, my browser doesn't support Ruby

[moderatorrater]

but in the end it's mostly a question of style, politics and library support. Yeah, I see Obama as a Ruby man myself, whereas McCain is a C or C++ man. Ruby's cool, trendy, and somewhat revolutionary, but it's unproven and may have problems scaling beyond small to medium sized bases. The ideas all seem to be right, but nobody knows if they'll work in the real world.

C and C++, on the other hand, have been around forever, they're old and stodgy, yet you know where they stand and how things are going to work out. You're not going to get anything revolutionary out of them, and you're not going to be able to get a story on Slashdot and other news sites about this awesome new thing that you couldn't do the same way in another language.

Use arax, raggy!

[192939495969798999]

ruby ruby roo!

Re:Use arax, raggy!

[hanshotfirst]

Fred: So let's see whose really behind the phantom's plot to drive everyone off the Internet...

Daphne: It's old man Gates from the haunted software company!

Velma: We figured it out after unraveling the clue - Mr. Ballmer was responsible for the ghostly floating chairs!

Bill: And we'd've gotten away with it too! If it weren't for you meddling script kiddies!

Re:Um, my browser doesn't support Ruby

[mythras]

Does this mean my new ARAX sites will be as reliable as Twitter? If so, I'm gonna need to extend the minutes on my on-call cellphone plan.

Re:Um, my browser doesn't support Ruby

[Reverend528]

Every language is for people who hate perl. Everyone hates perl. Especially perl developers.

And ARAX isn't as good as AJAX

[einhverfr]

Ajax has always been second-best to Achilles, the greatest hero of the Trojan war. In other words, the only thing better than Ajax would be Achilles (maybe Asynchronous C or Haskall In Lisp List Extensible Style).

Who was this Arax fellow? What wars did he fight in?

Re:Um, my browser doesn't support Ruby

[gertam]

Nah, McCain is a Fortran 4 man.

Why only people like us come here

[sm62704]

Ruby
rails
Ruby on rails
Soap
Ajax
Ajax soap
Python
Perl
Java

Is it any wonder normal people think we're strange? (Ignore the rest of this comment, as it presently has too few characters per line (currently 8.5) but thankfully I can paste slashdot's retarded "error" message in the comment to correct this travesty)

Re:Um, my browser doesn't support Ruby

[Kingrames]

President Bush has already announced plans to liberate it.

Re:Um, my browser doesn't support Ruby

[morgan_greywolf]

It's like java, but not as fast, secure, or scalable.

No. Ruby is what would happen if you put Java, Python, Perl and Common Lisp in a blender.

ARAX?

[Microsift]

Ruh Roh!

Re:Simply the most snore worthy post of the day.

[Jesus_666]

Who needs Lisp? PROLOG! APAX is the wave of the future!

Or we define the web as a meta-processor and write wasm (web assembler) to interpret assembly code for this processor. Then we can have AAAX!

ramble much?

[OrangeTide]

I hope you don't program Ruby like you post