The Web as a Software Platform: Ten Years Later

Antero Taivalsaari, Tommi Mikkonen

2017

Abstract

In the past ten years, the Web has become a dominant deployment environment for new software systems and applications. In view of its current popularity, it is easy to forget that only 10-15 years ago hardly any developer would write serious software applications for the Web. Today, the use of the web browser as a software platform is commonplace, and JavaScript has become one of the most popular programming languages in the world. In this paper we revisit some predictions that were made over ten years ago when the Lively Kernel project was started back in 2006. Ten years later, most of the elements of the original vision have been fulfilled, although not entirely in the fashion we originally envisioned. We look back at the Lively Kernel vision, reflecting our original goals to the state of the art in web programming today.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Taivalsaari A. and Mikkonen T. (2017). The Web as a Software Platform: Ten Years Later . In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST, ISBN 978-989-758-246-2, pages 41-50. DOI: 10.5220/0006234800410050

in Bibtex Style

@conference{webist17,
author={Antero Taivalsaari and Tommi Mikkonen},
title={The Web as a Software Platform: Ten Years Later},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,},
year={2017},
pages={41-50},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006234800410050},
isbn={978-989-758-246-2},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,
TI - The Web as a Software Platform: Ten Years Later
SN - 978-989-758-246-2
AU - Taivalsaari A.
AU - Mikkonen T.
PY - 2017
SP - 41
EP - 50
DO - 10.5220/0006234800410050