The Great JavaScript Debate: Improve It Or Kill It

snydeq writes "Recent announcements from Google and Intel appear to have JavaScript headed toward a crossroads, as Google seeks to replace the lingua franca of the client-side Web with Dart and Intel looks to extend it with River Trail. What seems clear, however, is that as 'developers continue to ask more and more of JavaScript, its limitations are thrown into sharp relief,' raising the question, 'Will the Web development community continue to work to make JavaScript a first-class development platform, despite its failings? Or will it take the "nuclear option" and abandon it for greener pastures? The answer seems to be a little of both.'"

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Re:I wouldn't mind Lua

[xhrit]

You can do server side programming in Lua with Keppler.

Lua has ruined programming for me. It has shown me that everything is an abstraction, the industry is inundated with arbitrary conventions, and the only limitations are self imposed. Lua is the last programming language I ever want to learn.

I have an open source project that is basically like flash player, but with lua instead of actionscript. Oh and fullscreen 3d with 100k triangles at 60 frames per second, hardware shaders. and networking support.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/xenosengine/