Re:Why node.js disappoints me
by silentbicycle on Tuesday September 28, 2010 @01:27AM
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Ok, just curious. I use Lua quite a bit, and I find its mix of prototype-based OO and clean functional programming to be very practical, as well.
It sounds like other people find the same pragmatism in Javascript, but after learning Lua, I find Javascript really depressing - it had so much potential, but...it's like Lua's little brother whose mind never had a chance to fully develop (due to the browser wars). It's sad. Lua's design has been refined for 17 years, and ... Javascript was frozen after 2. Just reading about thruth-y and false-y types in Javascript makes me cringe.
Granted, Lua doesn't have the strangehold on web development that Javascript does (it was designed for scripting C/C++ instead, like Tcl), but I'm working on that.
It sounds like other people find the same pragmatism in Javascript, but after learning Lua, I find Javascript really depressing - it had so much potential, but...it's like Lua's little brother whose mind never had a chance to fully develop (due to the browser wars). It's sad. Lua's design has been refined for 17 years, and ... Javascript was frozen after 2. Just reading about thruth-y and false-y types in Javascript makes me cringe.
Granted, Lua doesn't have the strangehold on web development that Javascript does (it was designed for scripting C/C++ instead, like Tcl), but I'm working on that.