Opa: one language for all the web app stack

Post by Sandman » Wed, May 25, 2011, 7:46 AM UTC

Yoric wrote: post #10

Sandman wrote: post #7

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Certainly. The language looks crowded to me because it looks like a mixture of several different languages at once (well, two at least). You're using a markup language to define the user interface - why? If the point was to make it look more familiar to web developers then why not just let them use HTML (as in, HTML separated in it's own document)? I know, the idea of Opa is to be one language to develop the whole st…

> On the other hand, one could argue that an XML-like language is better for GUI development because it lends itself naturally to hierarchical structures (which a GUI certainly is). And I can actually agree with this. But in that case, I would definitely keep it separated from the rest of the code. Maybe this is just me, but I prefer the concept of separation of presentation and logic. Good point. Fortunately, that's…