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What do you mean by "more full-featured alternatives". To me the main webdev languages look about the same when it comes to the major features that have a notic

What do you mean by "more full-featured alternatives". To me the main webdev languages look about the same when it comes to the major features that have a noticeable impact on a project. e.g: few projects are affected by the lack of closures And all the talk about real this and real that. I don't think projects become more real when they're written in Ruby or Clojure. They're real when they work and are useful to the customers...

freshhawk 14y ago
> To me the main webdev languages look about the same when it comes to the major features that have a noticeable impact on a project. e.g: few projects are affected by the lack of closures Someone needs to read Paul Graham's essay about "the blub paradox" I can tell you that the quality and ease of use of your web framework/libraries is highly affected by the lack of closures and other higher level language features. Even if you don't use them, your library developers have more tools and more flexibility.