Ok, sad svi znamo sta je AJAX (bar mi sto se bavimo Webom). Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. MS je objavio Silverlight, a sada imamo i ARAX (Asynchronous Ruby and XML), koji ce (barem Rails developerima) doneti mogucnost da se umesto JavaScripta koristi Ruby na klijentskoj strani price.
In essence, using ARAX, Ruby developers would not have to go through the machinations of using something like the RJS (Ruby JavaScript) utility, where they write Ruby code and RJS generates JavaScript code to run on the client, Lam said. "Sure, you could do it that way, but then at some point you might have to add some JavaScript code that adds some custom functionality on the client yourself," he said. "So there's always that sense of, 'Now I'm in another world. And wouldn't it be nice if I have this utility class I wrote in Ruby…' Today if I want to use it in the browser I have to port it to JavaScript. Now I can just run it in the browser."
E, da dodam i svoj komentar na ovo:
Meni ovo sve izgleda kao poprilicno cudan pokusaj da se progura pre svega Silverlight uz pomoc Rails zajednice koja vec odavno nije zanemarljivo mala. Sad, da li ce to da bude dobro za sire prihvatanje Silverlighta, veliki je znam pitanja. DHH, tvorac Railsa, veoma je skeptican prema tehnologijama kao sto su Flash i Silverlight, a JavaScript je ipak otvoren standard koji funkcionise u 100% mainstream web browsera (ono sto Yahoo! naziva Class A browserima). Pored RJSa zivog, i frameworka kao sto su Prototype (koji emulira Ruby sintaksu u svetu JavaScripta), mislim da nije realno da se puno Rails developera nalozi na ARAX.
