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If you really hate it there's always Actionscript or if you're really brave you can even use C# or Visual Basic via Silverlight
by TomOfTTB 18y ago
If you really hate it there's always Actionscript or if you're really brave you can even use C# or Visual Basic via Silverlight
- tumult 18y agoNo I'm totally with you, AS3 and C# are way better languages than JS. The CLR (and JVM, too) are all good ideas, I think that's what JS should have been instead of a weirdly dynamic C-syntax language with some useless prototype extension bolted on top (among countless other problems.) But JS, like most of the web technologies we're stuck with, weren't so much designed as they were a series of hacks layered on.. series of tubes.. anyway, I'm preaching to the choir I'm sure. Silverlight is actually a lot better than Flash in most ways that I've found, too bad it's not installed everywhere like Flash is. I would make some comment about MS being evil, but I think they're about on par with Adobe these days (except they still seem to employ engineers occasionally.)
- axod 18y agoI think you should step back, and go read "Javascript: The definitive guide". Also, for a good explanation of prototypical inheritance (Which is far from useless if you understand it), checkout the Douglas Crockford lectures (Vids on yahoo).
- ryanmahoski 18y agoHere is Crockford's 4 part series, concatenated: http://s3.amazonaws.com/2008/09/javascript.mp4 http://s3.amazonaws.com/2008/09/javascript.mp4 (178 MB).
- jauco 18y agoOr read javascript: the good parts, it's one of the two reasons I'm a happy javascripter. (The other is that I can restrict myself to ff3.5 which not many people will be able to)
- sharkbrainguy 18y agoyou bastard
- zackattack 18y agoWhat makes AS3 so much better than JS? Aren't they both ECMAScript languages?
- tumult 18y agoTyping and being able to get an object's identity. Those two things make a huge difference.