Jifty the Jilted framework

I just thought I'd share what really made me look into Seaside and Smalltalk.

I was reading about Jifty - an interesting new Perl based web framework. One author had this to say about the origins of Jifty:

Seaside is a somewhat heretical web framework. They generate their HTML. They don't embrace meaningful URLs. They use Smalltalk, of all things.

Of course, by making these crazy choices, they get insane amounts of power. When we were building Jifty, we stole liberally from everything that had good ideas. We dragged Rails down a dark alley and rifled through its pockets. We grabbed Catalyst's wallet.

But really, Seaside's killer features like Continuations and Halos...just stopped me in my tracks. Once we got them into our grubby little perlish hands, I realized: This is the way development is supposed to be.

Posts on other blogs confirm that I'm not the only impressed developer out there. I find it incredibly interesting though, since the approach is nearly identical to the one I took in the Optus internal framework I discussed a few entries ago. It's a real shame that I never spent the time to clean that up for public release since the employer had ok'd releasing it as open source in principle.