Re:Why does Angular.js rock?
by dirtyaura on Saturday August 03, 2013 @04:44PM
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I wouldn't say that Angular is reinventing the wheel. Elegant and efficient two-way data binding is a non-trivial problem, and I haven't seen it implemented well (or at all!) in any UI framework that I have worked with in the last 15 years.
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Delphi had amazing data binding. You literally dropped two non-visual components on your form; plonked down data-aware components; and then pointed it at any number of databases via ADO, DAO, ODBC or BDE and you were flying.
Unrivalled flexibility and power and you could do knock together a CRUD app in a couple of hours.
Add to that the incredible flexibility afforded by 3rd party components like DevExpress and you had grids and other tabular components that even today any amount of HTML5, JS and CSS and backend programming could only dream of achieving.
And we did this in the 90s.
How was it at near-platform-universality and secure HTTP transmission?
Re:Why does Angular.js rock?
by jacques_chester on Saturday August 03, 2013 @10:07PM
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Windows was the near-universal platform and fairly sophisticated networking ability was inbuilt.
You mean getting something else (that's orthogonal) in exchange, justifies a regression to pre-90's in other areas?