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.

Use arax, raggy!

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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?

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

[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!