Announcing Opa: Making Web Programming Transparent

Posted by timothy on Saturday August 27, 2011 @10:32AM from the opalong-nothing-to-see-here dept.

phy_si_kal writes "Opa, a new open source programming language aiming to make web development transparent, has been publicly launched. Opa automatically generates client-side JavaScript, and handles communication and session control. The ultimate goal of this project is to allow writing distributed web applications using a single programming language to code application logic, database queries and user interfaces. Among existing applications already developed in Opa, some are worth a look. Best place to start is the project homepage which contains extensive documentation, while the code of the technology is on GitHub. A programming challenge ends October 17th."

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very expensive to implement by Tumbleweed · 2011-08-27 10:33 · Score: 4, Funny

Every time you do something in Opa that is successful, you have to break a plate. Opa simply isn't economical to scale.
For me as a German by Anonymous Coward · 2011-08-27 10:58 · Score: 5, Funny

this language seems to be obsolete from the beginning.
Re:yes! by mellon · 2011-08-27 12:58 · Score: 4, Insightful

Yes, and if Javascript weren't so bloody limited, that would be a great solution. Why, oh why, couldn't they just have embedded Scheme, which has all the wins of Javascript, and none of the limitations? Sigh.