> > JavaScript is just Internet assembly language. It's the frameworks that > matter. > I used to hate JS with a passion, but the momentum around it is undeniable > and the things people accomplish with frameworks on top of it are > staggering. >
So it was you who poetically said last year "JavaScript is the assembly language of the Internet". A nice metaphorical comparison that I have passed on to others. Scott, your description of JavaScript is too kind, I call it a tumour on the Internet, but now it's spread so far that we've all just learned to live with the pain. I've used scripting languages of the JavaScript family for decades and they were always great in their place, but now it's absurd that we have gigantic frameworks spitting out script and minifying it like a poor man's optimised machine code. The mere fact that jQuery even needed to be created is a hint you can't ignore that something stinks. I looked at the Kendo samples discussed yesterday and I almost laughed aloud at the massive framework they had to create with an API over an API over a typeless scripting language. It's very clever of course and it's a tribute to just how "plastic" JavaScript is, but I think it's an abomination. Greg K
