An eloquent open letter has been sent by David Starr to Microsoft’s Scott Guthrie, in which David urges Microsoft to “do MonoRail justice and don’t kill it without doing something as good or better”. (If you’ve been living under a rock for the past week or so, Guthrie has said recently that he’s working on an MVC implementation for the next release of Microsoft’s development stack).
It’s an interesting response to Microsoft’s dev tools strategy, which is basically to throw everything but the kitchen sink in that developers could possibly want. In Starr’s view the quality and value added sometimes aren’t there, however. He’s right about one thing: MVC is not your typical check-off feature, it needs to be a home run.
Update: Scott Guthrie replied at some length to the open letter and engaged in discussion with the participants on Starr’s blog. For Guthrie’s response, be sure to read the comments to the above blog entry.
Update 2: See this post for coverage of the Microsoft MVC framework unveiling at the ALT.NET conference in Austin, TX, Oct 6, 2007.
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I just read somewhere in blogs recently that Microsoft is almost ready with MVC framework and are about to announce somewhere in October.
Can any one confirm this again.
Microsoft has been quiet a lot about MVC framework and VBx ( The Dynamic Language ).
IronRuby shall work on Net framework and shall fully support Ruby on Rails…. My question is which MVC pattern are they going to use.
Mr. Scott Guthrie in one of his blogs comments said that MVC for asp.net will be independent of language.
Hoping to get some fresh news about this.