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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.'"
Why? This is not 1999. We don't "hate" javascript anymore, like we did years ago.
Now we hate flash. Get on the wave, man.
I decided it would be a neat hack to flood my living room and turn it into an indoor pool. Boy, did that reveal some serious shortcomings in my home's electrical system. Can any recommend an electrician who doesn't suck as bad as the guy who installed the one I have now?
A beautiful rant killed by an ugly fact.
Learning HOW to think is more important than learning WHAT to think.