On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 3:31 PM, Carl Jokl <[email protected]> wrote:
> Doing things the current way still leaves you forced to use > JavaScript. > > How many people here develop with JavaScript because they really like > and enjoy using JavaScript? > I certainly do. The popularity of tools like node.js show that I'm not alone either. > How many people here develop with JavaScript because they have no > other choice? > There are lots of other choices for browser based development. GWT. Flex. C++, if you want to go the native plugin route. > I wish there was a bytecode which could be targeted by compilers. Are you an ASN.1 person by any chance? > To > make that work would require all the browser vendors to agree on that. > There are existing bytecode formats which would be useful to reuse. > That gets into a political problem where both Microsoft and Oracle can > be sue happy and someone using just the bytecode / JIT part of the > platform without taking the rest could lead to upset. I also think the > Browser developers might have misgivings about incorporating such a VM > into their browser (a bit of 'not invented here' syndrome). > > It would be great if it happened. I just don't think it will without a > lot of pressure from some big entity. > This is a nearly fantastical viewpoint. What do you think the installed base of browsers is worldwide? At a guess, I'd say well over a billion. Look at the hard time that people are having already rolling out new features like CSS3 (which are simpler than new VMs). Do you seriously think the investment in a new VM would be able to pay for itself? How long would it be before it was deployed to a wide enough audience to be usable? And don't forget that Microsoft already tried this with VBScript. It was an utter failure. -Dom -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
