Archive for February, 2010

Rumored to have gotten their idea while at a bar, Dustin Moskovitz (Facebook co-founder and former CTO) and former-Googler/Facebooker Justin Rosenstein have undertaken a revolutionary project aiming to eliminate 90% of repetitive code facing most web developers today.

Modern web developers often feel like they repeat a lot of code. When we come up with a unique idea, usually that amounts to being only around 10% of our code, the rest is needlessly complicated and tedious. Enter Lunascript – “an in-house programming language for writing rich web applications in about 10% of the time and code you can today.”

At Asana, we’re building a Collaborative Information Manager that we believe will make it radically easier for groups of people to get work done. Writing a complex web application, we experienced pain all too familiar to authors of “Web 2.0″ software (and interactive software in general): there were all kinds of extremely difficult programming tasks that we were doing over and over again for every feature we wanted to write.

I am definitely going to try this out. The language seems very straightforward and could be very helpful in speeding up the development phase.
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