While at php|tek this past week, I attended a session by Ed Finkler called Building Desktop RIAs with PHP, HTML and Javascript in AIR At first, I was skeptical. Surely, this was all too good to be true.
Duly inspired, I set off hacking on my own application. After a little while (roughly an hour), I had a fairly impressive mock-up of my application going.
After downloading some more apps from Adobe Application Exchange the whole idea of what Adobe is doing with AIR finally hit me. This is opening up real rapid application development to a whole slew of people who don’t know those “real” languages like C#, C++, Objective-C, or Java.
Anyway, it’s awesome and you should try it out.