I came across the
Public Sector Developer Weblog today to find something with bold claims.
From Microsoft Live Labs, it is the Microsoft Volta CTP. According to the
blog post,
"The compiler creates cross-browser JavaScript for the client tier, web services for the server tier, and all communication, serialization, synchronization, security, and other boilerplate code to tie the tiers together"
The promise of easy "architecture refactoring". It almost sounds too good to be true. Script#, Astoria, etc...all concepts rolled together? Although, on initial glance of the samples, it looks to generate a lot of excess noise that is not necessary. Obviously, if you're looking for highly optimized client-side code, this is probably not something that would be used. Nevertheless, it is quite intriguing and at the very least make a cool prototyping or demo environment. You can find it at: http://labs.live.com/volta/
This is definitely on my todo list of technologies to check out. Stay tuned...