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NOLOH does not translate PHP to JavaScript, certain aspects of NOLOH use JavaScript, but no translation takes place. The 1.8 release of NOLOH will allow for your applications to run with or without JavaScript enabled. The fundamental difference between Cappuccino and NOLOH is that unlike Cappuccino, GWT, Silverlight, Java, Flash, etc, a NOLOH application is not a compiled application living on your local machine, which means you don't download the entire application, rather it's lightweight and on-demand. Because of this you can write things such as Amazon.com in NOLOH, as well as things like 280Slides, all while having a smaller footprint, but maintaining a unified application lifecycle. This also has other benefits such as being able to modify your application while it's running, as seen in the Hello World video. See http://www.noloh.com/#/section=features for more information. There will be Python and Ruby versions of NOLOH in the near future. I recommend you play around with NOLOH a bit more before making these statements. Please note that I wasn't belittling Cappucinno in any way, I was suggesting that if he was more comfortable with things like PHP, Python, etc, that NOLOH might be a better fit for him, rather than having the equivalent of a thick client application. |