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You are assuming people use Opal because they don't want to learn JS. In reality it's that JS is a very messy language compared to ruby. You can be a lot more
by DoesntMatter22 4y ago
You are assuming people use Opal because they don't want to learn JS. In reality it's that JS is a very messy language compared to ruby.
You can be a lot more productive if you avoid JS entirely.
- ativzzz 4y agoJS is a totally fine language. The entire browser ecosystem makes JS an incredible productive language for working on the web. You can disagree if you don't like the language personally but that doesn't change the fact JS gets the job done
- DoesntMatter22 4y ago"incredible productive language for working on the web" You can disagree if you want but that doesn't change the fact that JS is a huge pain in the neck to get the job done with.
- 1337shadow 4y agoAbsolutely agreed, hence the many Python to JS transpilers out there. https://transcrypt.org https://transcrypt.org https://yourlabs.io/oss/ryzom#javascript https://yourlabs.io/oss/ryzom#javascript https://github.com/am230/py2js https://github.com/am230/py2js We get so much satisfaction out of writing JS in Python, it's worth all the IDEs in the world for us!