Is there really a need to moderate long-time members of this mailing list? I notice that every message I send is held in the moderator queue and is eventually released.
On 12/17/2014 10:35 AM, Myles Braithwaite wrote: > On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 5:36 PM, Clifford Ilkay > <[email protected]> wrote: >> I hear you! I'm learning Javascript and wondering, "How did this >> language become so ubiquitous? Why doesn't Python run in browsers? It's >> a great language for embeddable scripting." > The industry seems to like converters (i.e. GWT, Pygamas, etc.) and > not replacing JavaScript with projects like IronMonkey. Which is kind > of interesting considering there is a huge user base of Python > programmers who are coding on top of Microsoft's Excel (instead of > having to use VB.NET and C#). I'd looked at Pyjamas and I was never convinced of its merits. Like Brython that Jamon pointed out, it occurred to me as an interesting toy but not something I'd bet the farm on. > CoffeeScript has a Python like syntax (I'm loosely using the word > 'like') if you are interested in not having to write JavaScript. But > it compiles CoffeeScript into JavaScript so it's not the best thing in > the world. I don't see the point of CoffeeScript. It removes curly braces and some other constructs at the expense of reducing the number of people who can actually read the code I write. -- Regards, Clifford Ilkay Dinamis +1 647-778-8696 --- GTALUG Talk Mailing List - [email protected] http://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
