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EDP and OOP are not mutually exclusive. Javascript is popular simply because it's really really really underpowered. see: atwood's law
by chewxy 14y ago
EDP and OOP are not mutually exclusive. Javascript is popular simply because it's really really really underpowered. see: atwood's law
- jQueryIsAwesome 14y agoIs popular because is the only language allowed in the browsers; any other assertion is purely speculation. Just be glad is not COBOL or C (imagine any amateur's code causing memory leaks in the browser...)
- reissbaker 14y agoUnderpowered? I suppose it doesn't have a static type system. You can do OO just fine in Javascript, though.
- jQueryIsAwesome 14y agoThere are fixed-sized intArrays and buffers in JS nowdays.
- reissbaker 14y agoYeah, but that's a far cry from a full-on static type system. Don't get me wrong, though — JS is one of my favorite languages! (Most) Lisps don't have static type systems, either, and not many people call them underpowered. Same goes for Ruby, Python, etc.