Linked by Adam S on Sun 15th Jun 2008 21:59 UTC
RoughlyDrafted Magazine has posted an in-depth article that examines Sproutcore, an Apple-backed Javascript framework that approximates Cocoa on the web. The article examines why using HTML, Javascript, and CSS just may win the battle with Flash, Silverlight, and Java for rich internet application deployment. Sproutcore enables web developers to create full-featured cross-browser web apps an in a Model, View, Controller convention, much like Rails. The Sproutcore site has some great tutorials that show off the framework. 
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That depends on the program. In my experience, most real-world programs don't use threads effectively for performance (actually, most real-world programs don't use threads at all).
But, since both Python and Java support threads, I don't know why we're arguing over it.
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@danieldk
I forgot one point I wanted to make regarding your threading comment...
Most of the common uses of threading in real-world applications do not improve overall performance of an application anyway, no matter how many cores your machine has. The benefits of multicore desktop machines come from multitasking and not from single applications that use threads.