[PRL] Strategy Letter VI

[Mitchell Wand]

Joel follows up today:

> Brent Ashley<http://www.ashleyit.com/blogs/brentashley/2007/09/19/strategic-internet-development-technologies/>:
> "I'll provide some links here which will help the reader to understand how
> many of the points Joel makes in his essay are supported by existing
> technologies in various states of readiness. It's a big pantry of
> ingredients that is waiting for the right chef to come along and combine
> them in a way that inspires the world to follow."
>
> Indeed countless people have already emailed me to say that "NewSDK is
> here, it's (choose one) Flex Builder, Google Web Toolkit, Java Web Start,
> Silverlight, JavaFX, Flash, ActionScript, MORFIK, OpenLaszlo, … (many
> omitted)" Ahem. These are not HERE until your TAXI DRIVER has heard of them,
> because I assure you he's heard of Microsoft Windows. Many of these
> technologies are developed by smart people who understand the world the way
> I talked about in the strategy letter, and are hoping to win the next
> platform war. But GWT is no more the NewSDK than Digital Research GEM, or
> IBM TopView, or Quarterdeck DESQView, or Concurrent DOS, or Microsoft
> Windows 1.0 was the OldSDK. They're just horses at the starting gate.
>
Alas, my taxi driver is a lagging indicator...

--Mitch

On 9/19/07, Doug Orleans <dougorleans at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > It should compile down to "native" code (native code being
> > JavaScript and DOMs) with different backends for different target
> > platforms, where the compile writers obsess about performance so
> > you don't have to. It'll have all the same performance as native
> > JavaScript with full access to the DOM in a consistent fashion, and
> > it'll compile down to IE native and Firefox native portably and
> > automatically.
>
> Isn't this what Google Web Toolkit does?  That's so 2006.
>
> > And your programmers are like, jeez louise, GMail is huge, we can't
> > port GMail to this stupid NewSDK.
>
> I'm pretty sure GMail, and Google Maps, and Google Reader, are already
> using NewSDK, aka GWT.
>
> --Doug
>
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