Should JavaScript Get More Respect?

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday December 19, 2006 @09:39PM from the ugly-duckling dept.

An anonymous reader points out an article in IBM's Crossing Borders series about the language features of JavaScript, surely the Rodney Dangerfield of scripting languages. But with increasing use in such technologies as Ajax, Apache Cocoon, ActionScript, and Rhino, some industry leaders are taking a fresh look at the language. From the article: "Nearly every Web developer has cursed JavaScript at one time or another. Until recently, many developers had all but written off JavaScript as a necessary evil at best or a toy at worst... But JavaScript is becoming increasingly important, and it remains the most broadly available scripting language for Web development."

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Re:Dense != Good by D-Cypell · 2006-12-19 22:00 · Score: 5, Funny

The author seems to equate dense with good

The irony of this is so elegantly compact I am concern a singularity may form around the vacinity of this article.
Re:JS by walt-sjc · 2006-12-20 01:27 · Score: 5, Funny

25,000 lines of Javascript ? What could you possibly be doing which requires that level of Javascript interaction ?????

1000 lines of application code, and 24,000 lines of browser compatibility code.