Ask YC: Whats better than AJAX?

Post by gb » Thu, Oct 25, 2007, 3:31 PM UTC

cstejerean wrote: post #25

agotterer wrote: post #22

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From what I have read silverlight is actually the opposite of what you said. Granted I dont know if its all true, only regurgitating what I have researched and read. It's actually not that bloated and is supposed to run javascript about a 1000 time faster since its compiled and not interpreted. It will be interesting to see how it develops and competes with flash. I agree that keeping up with the many languages is di…

I'm not familiar with silverlight but if it's not cross platform (does it run on my Linux box) it's bound to loose. One of the advantages of building web applications is that people on any platform (pretty much) can run your application. Microsoft has been trying to maintain their Windows desktop monopoly by pushing technologies to write websites that only work with Windows/IE. Once again I don't know if SilverLight…

There is an open source version being built for Mono:

http://www.mono-project.com/Moonlight

Post by icey » Thu, Oct 25, 2007, 9:07 PM UTC

If you really want to prepare for the next 10 years, you're wasting your time trying to pick a framework. In essence, you'd be gambling that your pick is the right pick. Frankly, if you really think you can do that; you ought to be buying stocks and not picking languages.

Instead, what you should be doing is learning how to be an excellent technology generalist. Get a solid foundation in the "Basics" of the web. Learn a scripting language that runs on the server, learn javascript, learn CSS & HTML. The most important thing is to figure out how you pick up new languages, because if you work on the web, you're going to be doing a LOT of picking up new languages and technologies.

Not putting your eggs in one basket is a very apt analogy to how to best prepare for a career on the web.

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