huyegn

Setting aside the obvious grandaddy of cross-platform compiled languages, C, what would you use if you had to quickly create a suite of commandline utilities that had to work on several platforms (mac, windows, *nix)?

The main criteria is that the final binaries must start fast and the programming language must have good libraries for HTTP/Web io

Whether it's flex, gwt, cappuccino, sproutcore, jquery or mootools, where have you seen extremely exceptional UI on highly sophisticated webapps? I'm talking about interactive, stateful webapps, not the standard list-of-things kind of webapps.

What model keyboard do you guys use? I'm starting to feel some minor pain in my hands and was considering getting this:

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