[nylug-talk] perl/ajax/widgetset

[Brandorr]

On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 1:26 PM, Alex Pilosov <alex at pilosoft.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Boris Reitman wrote:
>
>  > I would like to give a talk about the Pliant programming language.
>  > Pliant is a strongly-typed, compiled language that feels like an
>  > interpreter (perl, javascript etc.) Pliant can embed perl, so it
>  > benefits from vast array of CPAN libraries.
>  Hrm, this is quite interesting.
>
>  It is *almost* what I want. Again, almost.
>
>  What I was looking for for past 4 years is decent-looking ajaxy widget-set
>  with perl bindings on backend. It does not exist. this is *almost* it -
>  ajaxy bindings but no widget set.
>
>  zk is fairly good looking, but java (meh)
>  gwt is java
>  tibco gi is agnostic but very heavyweight frontend
>  ext-js is agnostic and *probably* not to annoying to work with - this was
>         my first choice of doing new app in.
>  echo2 is java
>  xul::node is *almost* it but xul-only (not a widget set) and "too
>         lightweight" (cannot program frontend if I wanted to)
>  yui/mochikit language agnostic but only a frontend no backend
>  porcupine/quix really neat, has gui builder, but not under much
>         development, fairly heavy-weight (comes with its own sql,
>         desktop) and written in python.
>
>  Is there anything else that would fit the bill?

I *think* Jifty might be what you are looking for:
http://jifty.org/view/HomePage

It is pure Perl, supports a wide variety of widgets, and is available
under both the GPL and Artistic Licenses. (They are at #jifty on
freenode).

Cheers,
Brian

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