ASP.MVC + Subsonic = Rails.NET Oct 30, 2007 16:21
MS has hired Rob Conery, the guy behind SubSonic (my favorite DAL for .NET). According to Rob, "SubSonic will be the convention-driven toolset for Microsoft’s new MVC framework." This is really good news.
I'm pretty excited about the release of ASP.NET's MVC framework. I'm quite pleased MS has decided to hire Rob Conery and roll SubSonic into the official offering. This will certainly enhance the adoption rate of SubSonic by making it more palatable for "corporations" to use it.
I attended a RUG meeting a few weeks ago and one of the comments by the attendees is that he's seeing more competition between Rails and ASP.NET than Rails and Java. This was the first time I had considered the possibility of Rails eating into ASP.NET's marketshare rather than Java's, but the recent moves by MS indicate that they are adapting to fight that kind of battle.
All of this means good things for the web developer. If you like the Rails style of web development, and I do, then the forthcoming ASP.NET MVC framework is going to be worth checking out. Beyond the rather significant differences between what .NET and Ruby provide, the main technical reason I can see for locking yourself into WIN.NET rather than using the real-deal is for performance/scalability.
Now, I do believe that Rails can be made to perform and scale. It has been made to perform and scale. There is a lot of effort within the Ruby and Rails community to improve runtime performance across the board. In this regard, an interesting project to keep an eye on is Merb. I know I'll be looking into Merb in the next few months.
Anyway, congrats Rob and MS. Looking forward to good things from you guys. I promise that my next blog title won't be a silly pseudo math equation.
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