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I found it revealing that he appeared to not only like Javascript, but liked it better than Python and Ruby. Interesting. I personally have grown to love codi

by JPKab 14y ago

I found it revealing that he appeared to not only like Javascript, but liked it better than Python and Ruby. Interesting. I personally have grown to love coding in Javascript, but I'm a dumbass who doesn't know Lua, Erlang, Haskell, etc. It would be interesting to hear his perspective on JS.

tokipin 14y ago
just a note: Lua is basically a very cleaned up version of Javascript. if their APIs were the same you could practically do a literal transcription between them and most programs would run with little alteration. that includes things like object literals (lua tables). example: (function(a, b) { return a * b; })(1) //valid javascript (NaN) (function(a, b) return a * b end)(1) //valid lua (runtime error)
- interpol_p 14y ago
  I love Lua because of it's reluctance to use symbols (such as braces). It's mostly an aesthetic thing. I think it looks great.
SoftwareMaven 14y ago
I know quite a few languages, and I like Javascript. It has a nice mix of functional, procedural, and object oriented aspects. Once upon a time, it was a horrible language to work in (with browser differences making it infinitely worse); but now, I find I like it. Now, that said, given the choice, I'd choose coffescript. It gives many of the same benefits in a more concise format. It has its warts as well, though, reflecting its desire to stay as close to a concise-javascript as possible.
- zackmorris 14y ago
  I feel like coffeescript largely exists because of early mistakes in javascript, like no heredoc and places where they weakened the language to make it more convenient, like this one I just discovered today (with workarounds) http://stackoverflow.com/a/14510952/539149 http://stackoverflow.com/a/14510952/539149 and js has a ton of problems because it separated Array and Object, but overall I think it's still probably my favorite language right now. I like lua too but it's less pure, so aspects of it remind me of older languages like pascal.

by JPKab 14y ago

tokipin 14y ago

just a note: Lua is basically a very cleaned up version of Javascript. if their APIs were the same you could practically do a literal transcription between them and most programs would run with little alteration. that includes things like object literals (lua tables). example: (function(a, b) { return a * b; })(1) //valid javascript (NaN) (function(a, b) return a * b end)(1) //valid lua (runtime error)

interpol_p 14y ago
I love Lua because of it's reluctance to use symbols (such as braces). It's mostly an aesthetic thing. I think it looks great.

SoftwareMaven 14y ago

I know quite a few languages, and I like Javascript. It has a nice mix of functional, procedural, and object oriented aspects. Once upon a time, it was a horrible language to work in (with browser differences making it infinitely worse); but now, I find I like it. Now, that said, given the choice, I'd choose coffescript. It gives many of the same benefits in a more concise format. It has its warts as well, though, reflecting its desire to stay as close to a concise-javascript as possible.

zackmorris 14y ago
I feel like coffeescript largely exists because of early mistakes in javascript, like no heredoc and places where they weakened the language to make it more convenient, like this one I just discovered today (with workarounds) http://stackoverflow.com/a/14510952/539149 http://stackoverflow.com/a/14510952/539149 and js has a ton of problems because it separated Array and Object, but overall I think it's still probably my favorite language right now. I like lua too but it's less pure, so aspects of it remind me of older languages like pascal.