Web 关于一个可以一统江湖的Web开发语言Opa

Opa，一站式的Web应用开发语言，使你从需要同时编写HTML,CSS,JavaScript,SQL以及其他五花八门的Web应用开发语言的痛苦经历中解脱。
    长久以来对于Web开发的问题是面对它开发的复杂性，即使开发一个最简单的Web应用也需要开发人员同时懂得多种语言。你需要HTML跟CSS来负责UI部分，JavaScript负责客户端功能开发，服务端业务逻辑需要使用JAVA或PHP等服务端语言进行开发，另外还需要使用SQL来访问数据库等等。
    把以上的语言都抛开怎么样？
    最近几周我被Opa迷住了，它致力于消除Web开发过程中不同部分开发语言间的纠葛。使用Opa，你不再需要使用一种语言开发UI，另一种语言开发客户端程序，以及服务端语言来开发业务逻辑了，几乎所有的事情，从面向客户的代码到数据库访问都可以使用Opa进行开发。
    不像一些RIA(富应用)平台，使用Opa的用户不需要在浏览器端安装任何插件。需要在浏览器端运行的Opa部分代码会自动编译为JavaScript。另外服务端代码运行在服务器上。实际上，Opa的服务端与其他服务端语言不太一样，它是一个真正的一体化解决方案。与大多数平台不同的是，你不再必须安装并维护一个单独的Web服务器，数据库服务器，应用服务器，或者还有中间件层来使整个应用运行起来。Opa平台提供了一切，从Web服务到数据库服务，以及客户端和服务端的框架。
    因此，使用Opa开发的Web应用能做到难以置信的精简，几乎没有用来处理各个环节之间连接的代码，以及更少的样板文件和乏味的工作这些其他平台普遍存在的问题。一个聊天室的例子，只用了27行Opa代码就可完成。用Opa开发以及部署Web应用的方法可以访问http://opalang.org/learn.xmlt获得。

 

 

A perennial problem with Web development is its complexity and the number of languages and technologies a developer must juggle to deploy even the simplest Web application. You need HTML and CSS for the UI, JavaScript for the client-side code, a server-side platform such as Java or PHP for the back-end logic, SQL to access the database, and potentially more.

What if all of that went away?

In recent weeks, I've been fascinated with Opa, a new language that aims to eliminate all of the convoluted code-wrangling from Web application development. With Opa, you don't use one language to script your UI, another to code your business logic, and so on. Everything, from the client-facing code to the database access, is written in Opa.

Unlike with some rich Internet application (RIA) platforms, users don't need a browser plug-in to use Opa applications. The parts of your Opa code that need to run in the client browser are automatically compiled into JavaScript.

Other parts of your code run on the server, as appropriate. Here, Opa is unusual in that it's a truly all-in-one solution. Unlike most platforms, you don't need to install and maintain a stand-alone Web server, database server, application server, and middleware layer to get going. The Opa platform provides everything, from the Web server to the database server to the client- and server-side frameworks.

As a result, Web applications built with Opa can be incredibly compact. There's very little of the "glue code," boilerplate, and drudge work that characterizes most Web platforms. The sample application is a distributed Web-based chat client that comprises just 27 lines of Opa code. A full description of how to develop and deploy Web applications in Opa would be too long to include here, but I encourage you to browse the copious documentation available online.