And so the world revolves again, the same script is being played over. The new version of the scenario is centered around all the new tools that are going to make software development easier.
Last time we had Java, CORBA, Com, Visual Basic, Power Builder, Oracle Tools, Delphi, and many versions of C and 4GL tools all battling it out for dominance in the most software development arena. SOAP came along and threw things a new curve for a while. Software frameworks developed, patterns arose as a dominant technique, and things started narrowing down to Mid Range or small platform tools.
It seems that with the extensions of HTML 5 he battle has begun (or simply continued) once again with dozens of frameworks and new languages jumping out all of the time. It seems that the goal is to get the ultimate language and framework so that you can write an application once, and it will run virtually anywhere as long as it is HTML 5 capable.
We want to be able to write an application that will run on a cell phone, a tablet or a computer workstation with lots of power and capability. That is becoming a real possibility as network bandwidth continues to expand and reduce in overall cost.
For example, I just read a tweet for AppGyver which is a java framework based on HTML 5 which is supposed to rival native application performance on mobile devices.
Are you using any of these new tools? Do you have any guidance as to which ones are worth looking into? Share your comments here or drop an email to btaylor@sswug.org.
Cheers,
Ben