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I wonder what the alternative reality could be in which browsers adopted Tcl instead.
by rathel 7y ago
I wonder what the alternative reality could be in which browsers adopted Tcl instead.
- cnasc 7y agoThat might be an interesting counterfactual for a blog post (or series). What if {x} had been the dominant web scripting language? What does that language offer that JS can’t match, and what trade offs does it make to get there? I suppose you’d have to write a hypothetical spec for dom APIs, etc that don’t exist in the target language, and then pretend to use it and see what the pain points/unexpected pleasures are.
- badsectoracula 7y agoInstead of complaining about `==` developers would complain about substitution rules :-P.
- timbit42 7y agoShould have been Scheme or Logo, although Tcl would be high on my list.
- thedance 7y agoMSIE scripting did and does support Tcl.