I get the feeling that because Javascript is in such high demand, a lot of "classicly trained" programmers have started taking it up and started b*tching about how things aren't they way they're used to.
That's probably the same group of people who on this board complain about Python's indentation syntax, etc.
Prototypes aren't classes and they aren't always what you want, and conventions can't always be optimized by the compiler as well as structured language elements.
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Agree 100%. You don't have to install anything. It's on every machine with a modern web browser, even mobile devices.
It's even got the "nastiness" factor down. :-)
We're also starting to see things like Snap written in pure JavaScript/HTML5:
http://snap.berkeley.edu/snapsource/snap.html
Not to forget the rapid evolution of the language, ECMAScript 6 will get ... 1. classes http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:classes 2. modules http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:modules and more (http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:proposals).
Javascript doesn't even need classes as a prototype-based (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prototype-based_programming) language.
I get the feeling that because Javascript is in such high demand, a lot of "classicly trained" programmers have started taking it up and started b*tching about how things aren't they way they're used to.
That's probably the same group of people who on this board complain about Python's indentation syntax, etc.
Prototypes aren't classes and they aren't always what you want, and conventions can't always be optimized by the compiler as well as structured language elements.