A New Platform For Business Application Development
Anybody who has been involved in developing a business application, has already exhausted the long list of frameworks/libraries in JVM, .NET and Python platforms searching for something that reduces the costs while increases the development speed. However it's almost proved to me that one should seek the answer in less explored/popular platforms. Let's meet Pharo! Introduction Well, the title of this blog entry may be a bit confusing as the platform I'm going to talk about is not "new" at all! In fact, it's been around evolving far more than most of us know and could imagine. As a polyglot programmer, for the past 5 years, I've been trying many different languages and platforms to find one which would help me reach my goal: to write a business application (ERP) which can be run in hosted mode (SaaS) and is easily maintainable; and I had a short list of features/characteristics I was looking for in any of them. Note: I will elaborate on software as a ...