The JavaScript Juggernaut Rolls On

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday February 1, 2014 @04:40AM from the building-tools-to-build-more-tools dept.

JThaddeus writes "An article in TechWorld Australia summarizes the latest opinions on JavaScript from ThoughtWorks: 'There is no end in sight to the rise of JavaScript... "I think JavaScript has been seen as a serious language for the last two or three years; I think now increasingly we're seeing JavaScript as a platform," said Sam Newman, ThoughtWorks' Global Innovation Lead.' The article touches on new additions to JavaScript tools, techniques, and languages built on JavaScript. As the fuller report (PDF) says, 'The ecosystem around JavaScript as a serious application platform continues to evolve. Many interesting new tools for testing, building, and managing dependencies in both server- and client-side JavaScript applications have emerged recently.'"

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Re:How about a generic scripting engine? by qpqp · 2014-02-01 05:12 · Score: 5, Informative

Why don't browsers come with a generic scripting engine
They do, it's called JavaScript.
LLVM IR? Here you go
Your other request inverted, compile CIL to JS: jsil.org
Re:jscript by Anonymous Coward · 2014-02-01 05:14 · Score: 5, Informative

JavaScript is a horrible language because you haven't heard of things like jslint and your team doesn't develop with TDD using one of the numerous testing frameworks that exist for JavaScript?