If people wonder why i'm so picky about the language and it's features, then it's because i'm looking at rewriting an application (written in pyhton and pyqt) of mine in pure javascript and html5. Mainly for fun, but it also seems javascript and html5 is where the future is taking us, so i may just as well learn it right now.
If it was just a little DOM manipulation in some web page we were talking about, i might not be so hesitant, but when writing anything over 100 LOC, i want to know the language better.
Hmmm. Interesting! Initially, i was looking at javascript compilers such as pyjamas, but apparently you can't use 3rd party js libraries like jquery then.
I prefer using the "real thing" if possible. We shall see what people have to say about coffescript.
Seriously though, it would be nice if all browsers had a VM instead, so that people could just drop in compiled byte code for languages that supported this VM, instead of supporting just this one language (javascript).
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