Re: The Gnoga project goals - Ada Advocay for Businesses

[johannes falcone <visphatesjava@gmail.com>]

On Thursday, November 13, 2014 3:27:16 PM UTC-5, David Botton wrote:
> On Thursday, November 13, 2014 1:35:13 PM UTC-5, johannes falcone wrote:
> > On Wednesday, November 12, 2014 6:46:56 AM UTC-8, David Botton wrote:
> > > I will be leaking out parts of the Gnoga business plan as I ready the website and it's applications:
> > > 
> > > The Gnoga project goals:
> > > 
> > > 1. Advocate Ada for use in the "applications" space, in particular for non-safety critical, non-embedded general purpose software and business systems.
> > > 
> > > 2. Generate a market for Ada software that allows individual developers and small teams to profit along with building large corporate interest and jobs.
> > > 
> > > 3. Increase the grass root interest in Ada in the open source community and among hobbyists and students (outside the academic courses).
> > > 
> > > 4. Materialize in a more practical and centralized fashion off the shelf reuse of Ada code.
> > > 
> > > 5. Benefit anyone working on the GNAT compiler (including AdaCore) in order to help insure the continued high quality development of the Ada language and compilers that are free (as in Stallman) software and unencumbered Ada runtimes for public use.
> > > 
> > > David Botton
> > 
> > awesome!!!!!
> > How does gnoga compare to 
> > www.happstack.com
> > http://zotonic.com/
> > http://www.seaside.st/
> > http://revel.github.io/
> 
> Gnoga compares more to Gtk or Qt then to any of them. They are about "serving pages". Gnoga maintains a _live_ connection to the browser that it uses as a rendering engine for GUIs.
> 
> You write your company website using HTML and CSS, you write an interactive application in Gnoga for cloud/web, desktop or mobile.
> 
> It will take some time for people to fully "get" Gnoga.
> 
> 
> The closest thing to Gnoga, but not exactly, is http://www.webtoolkit.eu/wt or Xojo.com.
> 
> However, Wt is a dog to program in compared to Gnoga (and using C++.. nough said) and Xojo is a VB clone that was a desktop UI ported to this sort of thing.
> 
> I will have a full VB / Delphi like builder done in a few months hopefully.
> 
> > I assume ada kicks pythons ass speed wise (pypy too?)
> 
> Of course.
> 
> > The idea of letting ada worry about html and java script is sexy!
> 
> Ada is.
> 
> > Can gnoga use www.hypertable.org as the data store? or must one use memcached and postgresql? Java is clumsy but they use cassandra to speeds things up.  Hypertable seems to be a free answer to cassandra.
> 
> I'll take a look and let you know. Anything that you can interface with using JavaScript with or C/C++ can be used with Gnoga.
> 
> I don't have access to up to date GNATs for the JVM but in theory using Gnoga on that would mean anything that interfaces with JavaScript or on the JVM.
> 
> David Botton

It seems potentially very powerful.

Great work!!!

It seems that supply does create its own demand.