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It's interesting how simple and understandable now these concepts are with JS. I couldn't imagine a language written in 7 days ending up with ability to handle
by maxpert 9y ago
It's interesting how simple and understandable now these concepts are with JS. I couldn't imagine a language written in 7 days ending up with ability to handle all this.
- morty16 9y agoThe original JS borrowed heavily from Scheme (lisp1 + everything evaluatable) and Self (prototype model of inheritance) and then was covered with a bunch of Java-like nonsense, which (IMO) just made things more complex. There's been a nice functional language buried in JS all this time. It's still buried in there someplace.
- zdkl 9y agoIf you make it through the tooling, clojurescript is magical.
- Antrikshy 9y agoHow similar is modern JS to the original "7 day" language?
- maxpert 9y agoModern JS is just syntactic sugar on top of concepts introduced in original JS. It's so much flexible you have to appreciate the beauty; you can have getters/setters or classes but it the core is such a simple concept; you can mold it any way you like it.