Re:Web applications suck and they’re not worth creating
by bootload on Friday February 08, 2008 @08:39PM
(#112471)
"... You may actually discover that your customers actually want to host the software themselves, even though it’s a web app, in which case you have to do #terrible things# [0] to make your dorkus malorkus customers happy. ..."
When I read this bit with link to the Joel on Software article on Wasabi I realised the author missed the finer point of why. From Joels article ...
"... And we have the ability to add any feature to the language that we want easily... this is the same power Paul Graham talks about in On Lisp, the power to invent new language features that suit your exact application domain. Lisp does this through a mechanism called macros. ..." [1]
Wasabi was a summer project by a super bright Intern who created a real compiler. [2] Meaning if the need arises to port the application to another language it can be done. For the price a one summers project Wasabi FogCreek can change languages without major re-writes. Wasabi also means the source code can be released. The customers get the benefit of access to the code they run. FogCreek still get to charge hard cash.
When I read this bit with link to the Joel on Software article on Wasabi I realised the author missed the finer point of why. From Joels article ...
"... And we have the ability to add any feature to the language that we want easily... this is the same power Paul Graham talks about in On Lisp, the power to invent new language features that suit your exact application domain. Lisp does this through a mechanism called macros. ..." [1]
Wasabi was a summer project by a super bright Intern who created a real compiler. [2] Meaning if the need arises to port the application to another language it can be done. For the price a one summers project Wasabi FogCreek can change languages without major re-writes. Wasabi also means the source code can be released. The customers get the benefit of access to the code they run. FogCreek still get to charge hard cash.
Never underestimate Joel.
[0] Wasabi, http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/09/01b.html
[1] Wasabi, Ibid
[2] You can read more "Up the tata without a tutu" ~ http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000026.html