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Google Engineer: We Need More Web Programming Languages

Posted by timothy on from the ok-make-it-a-1001-flowers dept.

itwbennett (1594911) writes Web applications may one day surpass desktop applications in function and usability — if developers have more programming languages to choose from, according to a Google engineer. 'The Web is always available, except when it is not,' said Gilad Bracha, software engineer at Google and one of the authors of Google Dart, speaking to an audience of programmers Wednesday at the QCon developer conference in New York. 'It isn't always available in a way that you can always rely on it. You may have a network that is slow or flaky or someone may want to charge you.' Therefore any Web programming language, and its associated ecosystem, must have some way of storing a program for offline use, Bracha said. The Web programming language of the future must also make it easier for the programmer to build and test applications.

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  1. Re:No, we don't by mwvdlee · · Score: 5, Funny

    There are far too many choices now.

    JavaScript and VBScript.
    I agree there is atleast one choice too many.

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  2. Translation by NotDrWho · · Score: 3, Funny

    Translation: Google is about to introduce yet another web language into this Tower of Babel

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    1. Re:Translation by NatasRevol · · Score: 5, Funny

      It should be called the Tower of Babbage.

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  3. The good thing about standards... by menkhaura · · Score: 5, Funny

    The good thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.

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  4. Oblig. xkcd by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    http://xkcd.com/927/

  5. Re: Why? by jd2112 · · Score: 4, Funny

    The API of the current version is quite large, but the next release will be smaller. By version 2.0 they expect to have it down to a few pages.

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  6. Re:Or maybe... by Viol8 · · Score: 1, Funny

    "These are simply not possible in the new language. And thus software quality will be improved."

    What type of software? Good luck writing device drivers in Swift. Yes I know its a niche area, but you know, it is kind of an important one.

    If the new languages that came along brought something new to the table then no one would complain, but often its just the same old cola with a bit of extra sugar. Wooah , garbage collection! genetic types! no pointers! Yeah, I'm really going to spend months getting up to speed just for that. Not.

  7. Re:Why? by Chris+Mattern · · Score: 3, Funny

    Note that Gilad Bracha is working on Newspeak, which will probably be as close to an ideal web language as one could hope for - once it's finished - and not only in the matter of containment.

    It's doubleplusgood!

  8. Re:Why? by QilessQi · · Score: 2, Funny

    Note that Gilad Bracha is working on Newspeak, which will probably be as close to an ideal web language as one could hope for - once it's finished - and not only in the matter of containment.

    It's doubleplusgood!

    re userpost antethis
    newspeak proglang doubleplus ridiculous namewise: specdocs unmention mathop "++"
    replace fullwise with plusfull syntax:

          it = ++good

    oldthinkers unbellyfeel newspeak.

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