On 11/02/2011 15:18, Adrian Olaru wrote:
Right now, JavaScript is the way to go. My opinion is that programmers
love having more choices. Like on the server we are using Python Ruby
or even JavaScript nowadays. But what we've got on the client? Only
JavaScript. We had a lot of opportunities to "fix" the language but we
stopped having another option to the language. I love programming in
JavaScript. Don't get me wrong. I'm just saying that having other
scripting languages as an option is not such a bad thing.
btw, Lua is small, like 202KB small, tarred and gzipped. :) I am
giving Lua as an example because it has similar features as JS and I
think JS programmers will not have any difficulties coding in Lua
right away. Except maybe for that table offset Peter was talking about. :
The whole fallacy here is to think that you can control the environment.
Sure, you can install anything on the server, but on the client you
expect the user to upgrade. It is bad enough that more and more sites
expect JS to be enabled. What's next? Please download a LUA supporting
browser to see this web site? The web is a media, not a piece of
software and anyone can take part - from the crappiest IE6 corporate
setup with an outdated screenreader on top up to our awesome quadcore
machines with the newest nightlies of the coolest new browsers.
The existing infrastructure of the web is HUGE - bringing a new language
in there will take more years it will take for IE6 to die.
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