In place at Dyncon 2011 at Bwin/Ongame in Stockholm. Quite a nice crowd and the day was started with Joe Armstrong presenting Erlang . I had never seen Joe speak before and it was a fun and interesting presentation, although of course only “skimming” some areas. I found it fun that he referenced Alan Kay where he stressed that “it’s the messages”, given his earlier harsh view on OO. I couldn’t help starting to think about how some of Erlang’s concepts could easily be implemented in Smalltalk and what that could give.
Next up was Yehuda Katz presenting Sproutcore . An “all” javascript framework to build “rich” client apps in the browser. Hmmm… there are so many of these now. Claims a proper MVC architecture. But I really don’t want to build my apps in Javascript :). Generating Javascript - yes, writing it - no thanks. And I am really not impressed with frameworks/toolsets that are template oriented with various quirky ways of “binding” stuff together. I have become too spoiled by the HTML DSL approach in Seaside to think template engines are “cool”. Ouch, my eyes hurt!