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by icey 6491 days ago
I don't really see how this is much different than the promise of ASP.Net (outside of the Mac vs PC argument) - Allowing programmers to create web pages the same way they create applications.

It's a tremendous pain in the ass and a failure for Microsoft as far as I see it.
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boucher 6491 days ago
Well, at the very least, ASP.NET is a server side solution, while Cappuccino is entirely client side -- it has no server side component.
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tptacek 6491 days ago
How is being the #1 or #2 enterprise application framework a failure for Microsoft?
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icey 6491 days ago
Because they're now starting to back the MVC framework more and more heavily, which is a return to developing web applications like web applications and not like client-server applications.

Just because they have a large amount of adoption doesn't mean they've done things the right way.

I'm not saying that ASP.Net doesn't have a huge level of adoption, because it does. I am saying that they are seeing the problems with the idea of web applications just like client-server apps.

To be 100% clear, I mean that the concept of developing a web application just like it's a client-server application is a failure. Not the Asp.Net stack which is very clearly not.

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