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This is ridiculous. I want a real language, like Python or Ruby, not something that is ESSENTIALLY JavaScript with an altered syntax and few goodies.
by fijal 12y ago
This is ridiculous. I want a real language, like Python or Ruby, not something that is ESSENTIALLY JavaScript with an altered syntax and few goodies.
- dragonwriter 12y ago> I want a real language, like Python or Ruby First, by what criteria is JavaScript not "a real language" whereas Ruby and Python are "real" languages? Second, in any case, among the languages on that list that compile to JavaScript are both Ruby and Python, which I think meets any reasonable definition of a "a real language, like Python or Ruby".
- fijal 12y agoJavaScript is a real language. I should make it more explicit - I want a real language that's sufficiently different than JS. Any of the list is not. If you look closely, none of the languages is actually python or ruby (or anything else that's sufficiently different), just JS with altered syntax. Getting all the semantic differences is REALLY hard and once you do it it's slow (e.g. untranslated pypy slow, ~60x slowdown), so you can't use it. My problem is not with JS per se it's with the absolute lack of choice.
- mercer 12y agoWhat about ClojureScript? From what I gather it's quite fast and it couldn't be more different from javascript. Or even C via asm.js?
- icebraining 12y agoIn what way is Brython just JS with altered syntax, and not actually Python?
- anonbanker 12y ago2004 called. they want their opinion back.