My own experience is very different then. We handwrite every single line of JavaScript and once you get used to a couple of oddities it is really quite a nice and efficient language. After a couple of months working with it I even prefer it over C# which is something I would have never expected. I had a lot of preconceived ideas about JavaScript, most of them bad, but none of them held up against reality.
Anyway, I plan to publish a blog post explaining JavaScript to C# devs at some stage but finishing my game has a higher priority at the moment :) And just for the record: Our new NovaMind app is a companion app. We haven't abandonded the Desktop yet. On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 6:09 PM, Greg Keogh <[email protected]> wrote: > Patrick, I read some of your blogs and followed some links, and it’s all > quite interesting (and a bit confusing to a HTML/JS newbie). I went looking > because we have a Silverlight 4 app for statistics analysis out in the wild > now that has grown over the years since V2 was released. Now everyone is > hearing about HTML5/JS apps and the sales guy is often asked troubling > questions about the future of Silverlight. This all hints towards the > suspicion that we should have written (or will rewrite ) this app in > HTML/JS.**** > > ** ** > > I don’t have enough experience to tell someone how the development process > would differ between SL and HTML/JS or what features of our app would be > easier or hard to produce, or what other benefits might arrive (is > cross-platform easier?). I had some interesting replies on this matter > several weeks ago in the OZ-Silverlight forum, but they left me with more > questions than answers.**** > > ** ** > > An ex-colleague of mine produced this product <http://www.paperact.com/>after > abandoning a Windows desktop app, like you did. He hired a couple of > specialists in this sort of development and used tools I had never heard of > (I even forget their names now). I saw the megabytes of compressed > JavaScript that was generated by the development tools to drive the app and > I was quite shocked. Someone posted recently that JavaScript is like the > assembly language of the web, you don’t usually write it, it’s generated by > tools. Now I see how true that is.**** > > ** ** > > Greg **** > > ** ** > > _______________________________________________ > ozwpf mailing list > [email protected] > http://prdlxvm0001.codify.net/mailman/listinfo/ozwpf > >
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