Re: Gnoga and Wasabee

[johannes falcone <visphatesjava@gmail.com>]

On Sunday, December 7, 2014 10:38:16 PM UTC-5, moixa wrote:
> [I am not a professional programmer, feel free to correct me.]
> 
> Gnoga claims to be a cross-platform mission-critical framework for GUI applications, it achieves this goal by using browser. However, this, inevitably, will use Javascript to communicate with the server. My doubt is, technically, is Javascript a good choice for mission-critical applications? I never liked Javascript, when I heard about Node.js, I couldn't understand it, why someone want Javascript on the server side, the explanation I came up with is, people are different, some of them like Coke, others like Pepsi. The moment I heard about Gnoga, I was excited, I thought it is something like Qt framework, but clearly I was wrong.
> 
> I am thinking, is it a good idea to combine Gnoga and Wasabee [Wasabee is a web browser focus on correctness]?
> 
> Pros:
> * We can throw Javascript away, use Ada as its embed language.
> * No need to care about the difference between browsers, since we only use Wasabee.
> * Focus on the focus that the project claims to focus, like security, safety, etc..
> * We can even discard HTML, invent a new markup language, like Mozilla UML? [I am not sure this is a good idea, just put it here]
> * Use proof-based programming, by proof-based programming, I mean, you can rely more on Ada Contract than testing.
> 
> Cons:
> * Wasabee itself is in early stage, so, have a lot of work to do, but at least we are on the right direction.
> * Not cross-platform until you can run Wasabee on every major OS.
> * Need Wasabee to run. [I don't think this is a disadvantage, you can distribute Wasabee with your application]

I find gnoga exciting.  Mentioned ada to my retired radar missile engineer dad who said 'oh ada was tried by xyz big defense corp, and they didn't like it.  Do you find it hard to dispel such talk?