Comments on: Mascara: Putting lipstick on JavaScript?

By: robnyman

robnyman — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 10:50:32 +0000

“…because we actually like JavaScript”

Wonderful quote! :-)

polterguy — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 10:49:02 +0000

Funny that the tendency towards moving AWAY from JS is so huge now at all places…

PedroBatista — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 10:16:27 +0000

@Gordon, you have too much knowledge about that… :)

Gordon — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 06:48:11 +0000

Mascara is a cosmetic used to darken, thicken and define eyelashes. Putting mascara on your lips will throw an error

Dylan Schiemann — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 05:18:38 +0000

Nosredna: the short answer: “it’s hard”. A project was started a while back at the Dojo Foundation (it would work with any JavaScript code): http://dojotoolkit.org/2006/08/31/js-linker-dojo and http://ajaxian.com/archives/js-linker-in-dojo-toolkit for more info. Unfortunately, lack of interest/contributions have caused it to bitrot for the better part of two years.

Nosredna — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 23:06:39 +0000

Wow. That’s almost what I asked for the other day in a GWT discussion. I want a JavaScript compiler.

But what I really want out of it is the kind of optimizing that GWT does.

TNO — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 22:48:49 +0000