Redshift: What Ruby and a nice API can do in the browser

Yeah, I sort of feel like this is safest at a relatively simple scale where the efficiency gains also stand to be the smallest. Although I heart Ruby, personally, I'd be more interested to see someone nail the deep javascript stack with quality. Something like Rhino on Rails on the server, javascript/AJAX client/server, CouchDB w/ javascript views for the DB and AIR for javascript/AJAX desktop apps and widgets. Seems like with JSON around, that could be elegant and efficient at larger scales, rather than generating code from one language to another for some pieces.

My personal pet peeve is that a language for the browser was standardized, instead of a simple generic bytecode format. But then I have a whole lots of pet peeves about the browser as a development platform.

You can actually watch the video in HD on the Vimeo site. Just click the Vimeo icon on the corner of the player.

I feel like I have to work harder with Javascript than with other languages to understand what is going on. One example is the definition of classes. I have to execute each line of code in my head in order to see the big picture. Classes seem to be more succinctly expressed in other languages.