is gonga going to dominate the web still? glen hinkle vid interesting

is gonga going to dominate the web still? glen hinkle vid interesting

[David Botton]

Not sure of the comparison. Gnoga is a user interface API that happens to use a browser like an x terminal. It doesn't attempt to be part of the complicated me too landscape of web frameworks. It's model is that you program an application like you would for the desktop and it works everywhere including the web desktop and mobile. Ada shines here with its concurrency support and readable syntax.

David Botton

Re: is gonga going to dominate the web still? glen hinkle vid interesting

[David Botton]

> What apps have you realized?

Apps I know of:

The Gnoga.com site, some samples there snake game, connect four, mine detector, and a chat room app.

I am working on an Ada IDE and GUI builder so far code editing (highlighting etc), some project management including easy plugin of downloadable components.

In my company using it for patient check in/out, some medical documents, etc.

I know it is being used for a commercial home automation system

There is work on using it for some factory automation and I know of a few other projects in the works.

It is new and takes time for word to spread but there are users already.

Once I have a more full development environment I suspect traction will pick up for use. It is a far better way to develop front ends to embedded systems than typical web style control panels and it is possible and easy to do more secure front ends then most desktop UIs can provide.

David Botton

Re: is gonga going to dominate the web still? glen hinkle vid interesting

[David Botton]

> So e commerce style sites are possible? As well as web forums? voting style reddit digg ish sites?

Yes and I'd argue that almost any web app / site can be done faster and with less errors than any existing method.

> I have never made a desktop app, is it more straightforward than typical web site tools?  

Yes considerably. Drag some controls, double click on a control pick even to respond to. Event driven programing.

> Can you describe more about this style vs typical web control panel style?

With Gnoga you think in terms of individual interactions with what ui elements all of which have live state all with in a view being displayed or perhaps even hidden from view at the moment, unlike web design where you are concerned with pages and maintaining state between pages. In Gnoga you don't think in terms of client server interactions (although you may think of connections/users in the bigger picture), you don't think about how your data gets to the page or back, you don't think about JSON, html, etc. (although you can add that knowledge, like all things knowledge is power). 

David Botton

Re: is gonga going to dominate the web still? glen hinkle vid interesting

[David Botton]

> What do you recommend for learning ada? and best way to learn gnoga?

http://learnadanow.com

> Will gnoga work on freebsd 10.1? amd64?

Yes works well on it.