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Given that the functional programming story in JavaScript is much more developed, "vastly better language" may be true as long as you only consider the object-o
by goldfeld 12y ago
Given that the functional programming story in JavaScript is much more developed, "vastly better language" may be true as long as you only consider the object-oriented side of it.
- Derbasti 12y agoHow is it "much more developed", without providing generators, coroutines, or comprehensions? Just having to use functions to emulate all of these (and many more) is not what functional programming is all about.
- oleyb 12y agoECMAScript 6 has generators, and they are already available in Node.js.
- 1ris 12y agoJavascript seems to go the opposite way of python: instead of ironing the warts out, it adds them. The DOM-API is nonsensical and ugly? Why not add language features so we can implement it in pure JS? Sounds like a great idea.
- JeremyBanks 12y agoHow does that relate to ES6 generators?
- mikegirouard 12y agoWhile I agree mostly with your point, I think the DOM example isn't going to work. The DOM is a spec and doesn't really have anything to do with JavaScript.
- anton-107 12y agoThe DOM API has nothing to do with JS.