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2006.Nov.20 Mon
Comparison of Web App Frameworks
I thought this was interesting: Dave Pollak on Java, Smalltalk, Objective-C, and Ruby web-app frameworks.
It's too long for me to summarize, but he does mention some weaknesses in Ruby on Rails that I haven't seen elsewhere: security, stability, lack of multiprocessor support, etc. (And slowness and lack of unicode support, which I've already heard about.)
This guy says good things about NextStep (too bad he hasn't tried WebObjects), and mentions both strengths and weaknesses in Seaside on Squeak Smalltalk, as well as describing some features of Seaside that I haven't heard of before.
[...] even though haven't gotten to my "hate" point with Seaside (I've gotten to that point with most technologies, although with NextStep and Java, I came back to loving them... with Ruby, the jury's still out) I think it's got the right pieces parts to make it a quantum shift in web development. I think the kind of apps that could be commonplace with Seaside are totally not doable with any other web technology.