On Thursday, July 5, 2018 at 12:09:15 PM UTC-6, Jed Carty wrote: > > There is a huge usability gain, you don't need to know any javascript to > make something new and useful with tiddlywiki. >
I was a hobby level programmer in javascript. I remember many years ago in TWC using Eric Schulman's code and developer tools I could do almost any kind of processing on data and render it in any way I felt like. I ll be nothing but honest that I have never felt like that with TW5. Many times I tried and gave up in frustration simply because I could not find either tools or documentation like I did in TWC. Just a few months ago I once again started to do some hacking, trying to create a simple quiz. I was out of job and was preparing for some multiple choice exam and I wanted something simple but efficient. Believe it or not after spending almost a week I started wondering if the whole effort was worth it at all. And then I gave it up and just created hand written flash cards. Whats the point? When one has put in a whole long weekend and neglected one's health and given it space in one's mind and still does not reach anywhere one feel one has made a wrong decision and wasted precious time. People who are creating new things in TW5 are doing it because many of them have a good programming background. Many of them are exceptionally creative and they have time. TW5 will never become a tool that common people will use. Its too complicated as well as restrictive. > If it were just a neat javascript page that you used javascript to make > things in than I never would have played with it. > If you call a javascript page just a neat thing, then TW5 is also just a neat thing. I do not understand why you find javascript as something any less valuable. It might be with you that it does not attract you, but huge part of internet runs on javascript. > Yes, you can do less with vanilla tiddlywiki than you can with javascript, > but you can do more with assembler than you can with javascript, but I am > not going to write a web server in assembly despite the potential > performance gains. > That's a completely wrong comparison. I think you do not know Javascript enough. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/5f1ca098-f6cb-4e88-b715-b58148bb6336%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
