[thelist] JavaScript only for browsers? Bah! Humbug!

Matt Warden mwarden at gmail.com
Fri Jun 23 12:30:14 CDT 2006


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Christian Heilmann wrote:
> This seems to be part of a trend, and more
> and more apps allow for JS as a means of extending them. I collected
> some here:

Christian,

Do you think this will continue? There seems to be a hard limit in
application size when using JavaScript, after which developers start to
get really frustrated by its OO limitations. With universities pumping
out OOP-minded developers, it's hard to imagine that JavaScript (in its
current state) will really be picked up for serious development.

I've used it for a pretty large fat-client project, and I'll be the
first to admit that if I could have used another language, I would have.
- From talking with other developers in similar projects, it seems like
they too were using it only because of the "that's what we've got" factor.

But, for things like this where a decision is being made to use
JavaScript (as opposed to a "that's what we've got" situation), it's
hard to see it being used for anything beyond simple extension (and, I
would agree that for that purpose JavaScript/CSS is a very good choice).

- --
Matt Warden
Oxford, OH, USA
http://mattwarden.com


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