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One thing good about Silverlight is that you don't have to use Javascript. Has anyone here successfully developed a JS app with a quarter million lines of code

One thing good about Silverlight is that you don't have to use Javascript. Has anyone here successfully developed a JS app with a quarter million lines of code? And maintained it?

factorialboy 14y ago
Err.. Gmail. You're grossly underestimating JavaScript. With JavaScript its possible to break your code into logical abstractions, either functional or object oriented or a hybrid of the two. What's stops you from writing maintainable JavaScript apps is perhaps the quality of devs.
- cageface 14y ago
  Gmail is written in java and compiled to javascript via gwt. Doesn't count.
  - vetinari 14y ago
    Gmail's backend is written in Java. The frontend is written in Javascript, it has nothing to do with GWT.
    - evanmoran 14y ago
      Sorry, you are incorrect. GWT writing javascript is the whole point. http://css.dzone.com/news/understanding-gwt-compiler http://css.dzone.com/news/understanding-gwt-compiler From the article: "The GWT compiler is really a Java source to JavaScript source translator."
      - grhino 14y ago
        I don't think GWT is being used for gmail.
      - silas 14y ago
        Gmail is written using the Closure library: https://developers.google.com/closure/faq#gwt https://developers.google.com/closure/faq#gwt