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The support of other languages other than javascript. Mentioned by Joshua Block on a recent panel (http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Future-of-Programming-Lang
by DanielRibeiro 16y ago
The support of other languages other than javascript. Mentioned by Joshua Block on a recent panel (http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Future-of-Programming-Languages http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Future-of-Programming-Lan...), but can be seen by the adoption of coffeescript, and by the project that compiles LLVM languages into javascript: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1941447 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1941447
- pbhjpbhj 16y agoI actually think we've moved away from other languages and back to javascript recently. The browser competition means that javascript engines have become a lot faster and so are capable of a lot more than they were and things like jQuery/prototype/moo paired with json the recent developments like node.js, commonjs have given it longevity. This established base makes it hard to move away from js, but then what reason have we at the moment? But are you saying, as it appears at the end of your para, that we're getting more meta-langauges that compile to js script?
- DanielRibeiro 16y agoNot only more meta-languages. In the second link it's shown how Lua can be compiled to javascript. And in time, python, ruby and other LLVM languages. Reframing javascript from a language into a platform is a trend. GWT, Cappuccino and Sproutcore did a bit of it in the past, but this wave is not interested in web javascript only, but in javascript wherever and whenever: node.js, web, embedded, etc