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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.

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