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One should distinguish the Javascript language from the DOM API. jQuery make Javascript "less painful" by making the DOM API consistent across browsers and vers
by tacotacotaco 5y ago
One should distinguish the Javascript language from the DOM API. jQuery make Javascript "less painful" by making the DOM API consistent across browsers and versions. IMO the Javascript language is actually pretty good (given its 10 day gestation). Yes, there are some bad parts but every language has bad parts. Don't use the bad parts. That requires discipline though. And knowledge. Maybe I'm expecting too much.
What still amazes me is that Javascript has had this powerful functional programming capability this whole time and our industry has only recently learned/learning to use it.
"There are only two kinds of programming languages: those people always complain about, and those nobody uses." -- Bjarne Stroustrup
- goto11 5y agoAlso worth noting that an alternative language at the time probably would have been Perl or VBScript. Not sure this would have been such an improvement over JavaScript, whatever it's faults! A scheme-line language would have been cool though, and great as a compilation target.