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- electricwaffles, on 01/03/2009, -1/+7These first two comments are some of the most professional and intellectual comments I've seen on Digg.
btw link needs more bacon - Smuikas, on 01/03/2009, -1/+5"ECMAScript (JavaScript) 4 is tabled"
As a JavaScript developer, this really pisses me off. To no end. I realize that any new standard will take 2*n^x years to become useful, where n is the number of popular browsers, and x is the number of companies who want to keep their browser mainstream and still proprietary. But still.
I use YUI to extend my development. Primarily because it takes care of cross-browser issues for me. Dom method? YUI! Event method? YUI!.
But I digress.
JavaScript itself is a beautiful language. It's sublime. I love it. I admit, if Javascript were a human person with compatible genetalia, I might even mate with it. It combines object oriented features with functional programming very succinctly. What makes it painful is the near-infinite usecases in dealing with the document object model. I like it more than C#, Java, and so on. I'm quite enthused by the competition ongoing between browsers on javascript performance.
It's kind of gnarly. When you build a truly useful application with it, though, it's more like an organic -- dare I say, beautiful? -- tree, with roots and branches that meld so aesthetically with the trunk.
I wish events and DOM operations were unified. I really do. It would make my life easier (for one, I could quit adding 10kb + to my JavaScript dependencies).
I wish there was more available to it. I wish a new standard could be adopted. But, for now, dealing with the disparages between browsers is handled by a third party. Eventually, that third party will probably be removed (yay, code encapsulation from the beginning!).
With speed, needs utility. Javascript is finally getting its speed. When will it get its utility!? - strikerInsane, on 01/03/2009, -0/+4Quite Java-heavy, but a really good overview of the major topics that have evolved over the past year.
- mrcaulfield, on 01/02/2009, -3/+7enlightening article, thanks for submitting
- inactive, on 01/03/2009, -0/+3Buried for another top 10 tech list.
Chill the ***** out with these, digg. And this is coming from a web developer. - kokuei, on 01/03/2009, -0/+3As beginner game programmer I would have liked to see the OpenGL 3.0 mess in this list.
- oriondr, on 01/03/2009, -0/+3It's Software as a Service (not Development as a service), hence why it's called SaaS.
- Yarnage, on 01/03/2009, -0/+1JavaScript sucks. Any type of OO it has is hacky. The whole "DOM and Event Unification" thing is ***** because the DOM _includes_ events (it's the document object model; events are part of it). How you could like JavaScript better than a language that is truly OO is mind-bottling and I wish you a painful, debugging life.
- fretslide, on 01/03/2009, -2/+3A very useful article that can help buddy developers and entrepreneurs to look into the various emerging opportunities outside their domain..
- camilos007, on 01/03/2009, -1/+2"Spring ... simplify development as opposed to EJBs or J2EE or Java EE "
ok then. Aren't those 3 basically the same thing. - Stonekeeper, on 01/03/2009, -0/+1Regarding the MS v Adobe thing, Adobe can always outfox MS by simply supporting more platforms. It doesn't have an OS to sell so why wouldn't it?
- Smuikas, on 01/04/2009, -1/+1You're doing it wrong. It's not an OO language, though it can simulate one.
It's a functional programming language. You use a different mindset to work with it. - aoou4444, on 01/04/2009, -0/+0Read it again. He isn't talking about SaaS. He's suggesting something different and calling it 'development as a service'.
- DaveBlaze, on 01/03/2009, -2/+2Buried for Power-User.
- imright, on 01/05/2009, -1/+0Actually javascipt does not suck. tell your users to turn it off. Not a very eventf'ul experience unless your site is 'accessible' in a good way. JS is a requirement these days, get used to it. Ajax is a perfect example. Convenience for users is paramount. The perfect OOP model doesn't matter if users feel its a bad experience. Accept the peripherals. OOP is the norm now for good reason, but do not exclude the client from the party or you may find yourself in the dirt.
- inactive, on 01/03/2009, -6/+4PHP FTW!
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