Geert Bevin: “It's a shame, I really had huge expectations about Laszlo and even tried to sell it to a customer. I'm glad that project was cancelled or I would be in deep trouble.”
I too had a brief experience with Laszlo a few months ago. I walked away with the impression that it was a nice system for simple, graphically pleasing applets to put as gadgets on a web page. But as soon as you wanted to push the envelope, you'd end up like Truman Burbank: against a wall.
I was recounting this experience to one of my colleagues a couple of days ago, while we were discussing options for porting some legacy applications to the web. I was pushing for an Ajax type of solution, whereas he suggested that we explore Laszlo. I think I will have to email him a copy of Geert's post to strengthen my point.
(Via Matt.)
