Re:Is Model-View-Controller dead on the front end?
by cmrdporcupine on Friday November 11, 2016 @11:52AM
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Firstly, I'm not sure it's an entirely accurate description to call Smalltalk-80 (where MVC was invented) a desktop UI given how unfamiliar it would be to users of MacOS or Windows.
Secondly, MVC was certainly not invented in 1988. It was a product of the work at Xerox PARC in the late 70s.
It's worth pointing out that Dan Ingalls and Alan Kay and other pioneering people involved in Smalltalk ended up 'repudiating' (to use a strong phrase maybe) MVC in later versions of Squeak (which is a direct descendant of the original Smalltalk-80 implementation) uses the "Morphic" GUI system which was built for Self at Sun in the 80s.
Morphic is a prototype oriented, direct manipulation system.
None of this has historically translated well to the web, where the HTTP request cycle and the nature of the DOM and JS execution model changes things significantly. MVC was never a good model for the web.
Secondly, MVC was certainly not invented in 1988. It was a product of the work at Xerox PARC in the late 70s.
It's worth pointing out that Dan Ingalls and Alan Kay and other pioneering people involved in Smalltalk ended up 'repudiating' (to use a strong phrase maybe) MVC in later versions of Squeak (which is a direct descendant of the original Smalltalk-80 implementation) uses the "Morphic" GUI system which was built for Self at Sun in the 80s.
Morphic is a prototype oriented, direct manipulation system.
None of this has historically translated well to the web, where the HTTP request cycle and the nature of the DOM and JS execution model changes things significantly. MVC was never a good model for the web.