Thursday, July 5th, 2007
JavaScript as a Language
Category: Editorial
, JavaScript
John Resig has a new opinion piece on JavaScript as a Language that he came up with after poking around with JavaScript 2:
I think we’ve seen the JavaScript language move through many individual phases:
- The “We need scripting for web pages†phase. (Netscape)
- The “We should standardize this†phase. (ECMAScript)
- The “JavaScript isn’t a toy†phase. (Ajax)
- The “JavaScript as a programming language†phase.
I’m surmising that there’s this new phase that we’re starting to enter, one where JavaScript will be treated as a significant programming language - divorced from the concept of web development. Two significant movements lead me to believe that we’re at the start of a new era for JavaScript.
There are some good comments to the post too (imagine that) including “Quite a few people are in phase 5 already: Javascript as a code generation target” by Doug L.
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John Resig has a new opinion piece on JavaScript as a Language that he came up with after poking around with JavaScript 2:
There are some good comments to the post too (imagine that) including “Quite a few people are in phase 5 already: Javascript as a code generation target” by Doug L.
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URL: http://ejohn.org/blog/javascript-as-a-language
Fix it fix it fix it. At least proof read the damn thing after posting. Who posts and walks away, really?
the fixed text ;)
John Resig has a new opinion piece on JavaScript as a Language that he came up with after poking around with JavaScript 2:
There are some good comments to the post too (imagine that) including “Quite a few people are in phase 5 already: Javascript as a code generation target” by Doug L.
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John Resig has a new opinion piece on JavaScript as a Language that he came up with after poking around with JavaScript 2:
There are some good comments to the post too (imagine that) including “Quite a few people are in phase 5 already: Javascript as a code generation target” by Doug L.
Holy sh!t dude… Dion, you should just start this page over, whatever gremlin you have in your blog text is blowing up the page bigtime
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Oh boy I love this new layout. How will you name it? Scramble? Parkinson?
…nice post (John’s book is pretty good too, by the way). JavaScript is approaching ‘first class citizen’ status, definitely. The language has been given such a bad rap because of the different flavors in implementation (across browsers specifically), not because of the language itself. The language itself, once you start using it and understanding it, is very elegant and efficient in many ways when it comes to the web (higher order functions, dynamically typed, etc). …it will be interesting to see how it continues to evolve not on with Mozilla’s push, but also with the push from places like Google, such as Steve Yegge’s port of Rails to Javascript with “Rhino on Rails”.
Is this news? Some dude, writes a book and an opinion piece, states the obvious and wow, its a headline. I have always considered JavaScript a very power programming language. I wonder why its taking others so long to see this.
Not everyone is as smart as you bradd, consider yourself lucky. :) It’s about sharing information. I greatly appreciate the work Dion puts into this site, it provides many great pieces of info often.