Does anyone have thoughts about the utility of cappuccino for web app development where you load a GUI and then do all your state control for each [user not model perspective] entity via rpc to the server? I haven't tried it yet but expect this will be easier because you can bypass much of the grunt work of templating, and you don't have to deal with the back button issues either. I think the back button maps OK onto entities (i.e. get the user to link if they're going to a new booking) but not state transitions within an entity (i.e. if they add a person to the booking then there's no need to provide back functionality).

"The big problem, though - the elephant in the room - is that gateways suck, too. Gateways aren’t APIs." Too true.

On python - the python critics could fork, stick in the features they want, and benefit from the libraries. I'd have thought this would be a better starting point for a new language in that direction than a blank canvas. I admire clojure for similar reasons - find a VM and leverage it.