Trying To Bust JavaScript Out of the Browser

Posted by timothy on Tuesday December 1, 2009 @04:12AM from the first-disable-the-guard dept.

eldavojohn writes "If you think JavaScript is a crime against humanity, you might want to skip this article, because Ars is reporting on efforts to take JavaScript to the next level. With the new ECMAScript 5 draft proposal, the article points out a lot of positive things that have happened in the world of JavaScript. The article does a good job of citing some of the major problems with JavaScript and how a reborn library called CommonJS (formerly ServerJS) is addressing each of those problems. No one can deny JavaScript's usefulness on the front end of the web, but if you're a developer do you support the efforts to move it beyond that?"

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Why bother? by ickleberry · 2009-12-01 04:17 · Score: 0, Flamebait

I actually wish JavaScript and other client-side browser scripting would be done away with completely, but JS is not a particularly 'good' language. The only advantage I can see is that thousands of Web developers can now write desktop applications. Is that necessarily a good thing? or will it just lead to more inefficient crapware?
Re:c++ is good by Rik+Sweeney · 2009-12-01 04:34 · Score: 0, Flamebait

it's just sometimes, it's a resource hog.
A bad workman always blames his tools

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Re:Getting JS out of the browser is a *great* idea by plague3106 · 2009-12-01 05:42 · Score: 0, Flamebait

I think you need to retake basic CS if you don't know the difference between script and compiled languages, and how either can be used to build an application.