more reasons not to use RoR 2

20 06 2008

from the same slideshow

XML in, JSON out”

Why promote XML? That’s not very web 2.0. And more important, if you’re using one, why use the other. JSON is supposed to be A solution to XML, not a consumer of it. I realize you might need to consume XML, but if at any point your JS data structures look like SOAP, you’ve got problems. If ever an XML data structure that actually makes sense for the domain it is intended to be used it… well, I’ve never seen one.

Plus, there seems to be general trend towards more helper functions to write HTML snippets for you, like div_for, dom_class, dom_id, url_for, etc. It’s worse spaghetti than old school PHP. Worse than old school CGI or servlets.

I realize AJAX rendering is hard, but if this is Rails’ answer, give me JSF or ASP code behind.


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