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From: | Henry Litwhiler |
Subject: | Re: [Social-discuss] Languages -- let's make a web application |
Date: | Sun, 28 Mar 2010 13:50:35 -0400 |
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On 3/28/10 1:44 PM, Matt Lee wrote:
When I say "desktop application", I don't mean an application where users can perform all GNU Social actions from a special application - I mean a sort of management, backbone application to manage communication between GNU Social nodes. The primary frontend should, I agree, live in the browser.I don't believe that a desktop application should be the initial focus of this. This kind of application belongs in a browser right now, so people can access it from their phone, their office, their laptop, their iPad, whatever.
PHP simply isn't the language we want to use for the *backbone* of GNU Social. It's all well and good for parsing data and displaying it to the browser, but it simply isn't suited for the nitty-gritty work of handling node-to-node communications - at least, not in the distributed, p2p model that Ted Smith and I envision.When we have GNU social up and running, and people are able to communicate between web clients, people will inevitably make desktop clients, and that's great... but it's not the focus here. Let's move on from discussing which language is better, and move to discussing how we can get started making this a reality. PHP and a relational database will allow more people use this in the ways that people use social networks now. That's reality. Now please, let's pick a framework, and quickly, and start writing code.
-- Henry L.
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