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At the other end of the spectrum of possibilities Joel's team at Fogcreek developed their own platform:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/09/01b.html

So I would say that he's actually got a pretty interesting perspective on choosing technology platforms for web applications.

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Actually, that article is one of the most interesting and useful examples to point to when discussing the insanity that is Joel. That solution is just so ridiculous.

His software runs on a compiler that has had 2 months work put into it and worse, it compiles to either VBScript or PHP.

It's probably the most counter-intuitive solution ever implemented to solve the problem of needing a web-based application to run on both Windows and Linux.

Except when it came time to move to .NET/Mono, they only had to update their compiler to generate IL instead of rewriting the whole app from scratch. Sounds smart to me.

Except they are still stuck with any badly implemented language "features" in their own language that they only spent 2 months on. Language design and implementation is hard, just ask the dozens/hundreds of full time developers that work on ruby, java, php or .net itself.

Do you have inside knowledge of their framework? Did you know wasabi has memoization and heap of other things frameworks like .NET don't even have? They spent a lot more than 2 months on Wasabi. I think your information is outdated.

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