10 Forces Guiding the Future of Scripting

snydeq writes "InfoWorld examines the platforms and passions underlying today's popular dynamic languages, and though JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Groovy, and other scripting tools are fast achieving the critical mass necessary to flourish into the future, 10 forces in particular appear to be driving the evolution of this development domain. From the cooption of successful ideas across languages, to the infusion of application development into applications that are fast evolving beyond their traditional purpose, to the rise of frameworks, the cloud, and amateur code enablers, each will have a profound effect on the future of today's dynamic development tools."

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Fast javascript

[cornicefire]

Does anyone know of a project to bring some of the fast Javascript implementations like V8 to the server? It could be like PHP or Perl, only very fast-- if the numbers hold out. I would like to write in the same language on the client and the server. (Java almost achieved that...)

Re:Fast javascript

[ushering05401]

Everyone here is assuming persistent connectivity.

Client apps should always be written with the ability to dress, validate, and temporarily persist data before attempting to transmit, then the server should double check everything. Rejecting data on the server side, while necessary to prevent malicious injections, will always cost bandwidth or worse - it costs time if the client cannot reconnect for a set period to respond to results of server side validation.

Even if you don't care about bandwidth, reducing the need for client side modifications after the initial submit just seems wise.

If you are clever you might even omit a few key rules from your client side validation, leave an opening. Analyze any input that trips those rules on the server side for an ad-hoc Honeypot/Canary-in-the-Coal-Mine.