Some interesting news seems to be coming out of the Alt.NET Conference in Austin. I'd got a few IM's from folks at the conference talking about Scott Guthrie's talk. According to Jeff Palermo's blog, Scott Guthrie showed off a new ASP.NET MVC Framework. This looks very interesting and might well tempt me back into ASP.NET development. I really like parts of ASP.NET but that whole postback / viewstate thing just confused me. I was used to doing web applications the hard way and having this abstracted away from me into a semi-winform like representation of a web page just got in my way when building sites. It also made them pretty hard to unit test.
Having used (and even written) a few MVC frameworks in the past, I'm really interested to see what it is all about. Looking forward for some more information soon. Jeff's post has a few tantilising details which make me thing this is exactly what I want from ASP.NET.
Having used Castle's MonoRail for over two years now it's great to see Microsoft finally getting on board. The Castle team's response to this news was also very appropriate.