There are many compelling reasons to stop using such a badly-implemented and rather-demented language; but unfortunately there are no compelling alternatives.
I predict that web frameworks will emerge that will automate the writing of JavaScript in the same way they automate HTML creation. A sub-language with JS features but syntax like Ruby or Python will be silently compiled into the JS version when transmitted to the client.
There are many compelling reasons to stop using such a badly-implemented and rather-demented language; but unfortunately there are no compelling alternatives.
If there are no alternatives, then those reasons start to look a lot less compelling.
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Javascript: Stop Using It
There are many compelling reasons to stop using such a badly-implemented and rather-demented language; but unfortunately there are no compelling alternatives.
I predict that web frameworks will emerge that will automate the writing of JavaScript in the same way they automate HTML creation. A sub-language with JS features but syntax like Ruby or Python will be silently compiled into the JS version when transmitted to the client.
What, you mean like GWT?
http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/
The future is here, man.
There are many compelling reasons to stop using such a badly-implemented and rather-demented language; but unfortunately there are no compelling alternatives.
If there are no alternatives, then those reasons start to look a lot less compelling.