Re: Will ADA give rise to compiled code websites?

[David Botton <david@botton.com>]

I have been running Ada compiled websites for many years now so have many others. In fact I have won out many accounts using exactly the pitch that I would be offering their site in a secure executable form written in Ada.

The Rails like Ada framework I wrote and used for many of these sites I have never released publicly except to a few for various reasons (perhaps that may change at some point), but I have a new framework I will release in the next month or so for writing compiled web apps ( examples of web apps vs web pages - http://depts.alverno.edu/cil/basic/webapps/webappexamples.html).

Just to get you thinking... It allows you to develop fully interactive applications using only _Ada_ (no need to ever touch  JS or HTML) in a browser with a framework work that is very similar in nature to GWindows or GtkAda. The beauty of this is that with little work additional HTML/JS libraries can be bound to Ada to extend the framework, no reason Ada shouldn't take advantage of the de facto GUI platform of today and many years to come in a safe secure way and with out the taint of JS for serious app development :)

This is not for developing corporate websites, but rather "applications" where the browser is your rendering engine instead of Win64 or Gtk+. Such apps can easily be run on a local connection for full speed GUIs or remotely if desired that are completely cross platform and can use truly native controls or completely custom look and feel.

David Botton