Forwards: VWG is a superb toolkit - it makes visually very impressive apps very quickly
October 02, 2008 :: 973 Views
Microsoft vs Google
I've been considering which of two platforms to experiment with for my next project.
On the Microsoft front there's some .NET code I quite like the look of - Visual WebGui - it build on lots of Microsoft stuff I already know, it produces very cool looking AJAX applications very quickly, it hides lots of nasty javascript and D/XHTML complexities from you...
And on the Google front there's the Google App Engine - http://code.google.com/appengine/ - and there's a whole load more besides (they have more APIs available every day...). This is still quite new, it's only available using Python which I haven't used for a couple of years and if you want to develop websites then you'll get to get your hands dirty with text editors and simple code.
Here's some background I've done so far...
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