This is a great, long single web page about why JavaScript is not a great language to use for programmers:
http://www.moock.org/lectures/troublewithjs/
http://www.moock.org/lectures/troublewithjs/
This page was written by the great Colin Moock, author of numerous flash books and university professor in flash development and actionscript 3.
"My god how can you write a real program where you're just assigning random shit to other shit and expecting it to work"- John Carmack
Related video of John Carmack talking about dynamic languages.
http://youtu.be/00Q9-ftiPVQ?t=15m23s
In the end Colin Moock puts this image as the #1 reason to use JS, and the title is "#1: It Works on the Ipad"
Let's not forget that Jobs and the ios platform did kill a lot of developer enthusiasm for flash, but the touchscreen device's inputs were just not meant to fit flash's desktop-based api. I am still using actionscript 3 on mobile (in starling project) and targeting flash player for desktop browser games.
"My god how can you write a real program where you're just assigning random shit to other shit and expecting it to work"- John Carmack
Related video of John Carmack talking about dynamic languages.
http://youtu.be/00Q9-ftiPVQ?t=15m23s
In the end Colin Moock puts this image as the #1 reason to use JS, and the title is "#1: It Works on the Ipad"
Let's not forget that Jobs and the ios platform did kill a lot of developer enthusiasm for flash, but the touchscreen device's inputs were just not meant to fit flash's desktop-based api. I am still using actionscript 3 on mobile (in starling project) and targeting flash player for desktop browser games.
The Solution!
Colin Moock just not just end saying “Welp guys, if you want to develop truly cross-platform browser applications then… you’re beat.” He offers a few alternatives to “straight up bare bones JS”that are definitely worth checking out.
CoffeeScript
Haxe
Jangaroo
Union
Others non mentioned in Moock’s lecture:
Typescript
CoffeeScript
Haxe
Jangaroo
Union
Others non mentioned in Moock’s lecture:
Typescript
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