Re:JavaScript - It’s a Real Language
by kenjackson on Friday October 01, 2010 @02:59PM
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The point you have is a valid one, but I feel like it shouldn't be.
For example, the fact that you say there'd be plugin-hell with 30 plugins is crazy. A good management system should be able to efficiently handle hundreds or even millions of components.
And what if we standardized support for the scripting languages? So, for example, the DOM calls looked like RESTFUL services returning JSON. And maybe there was a low-level, but efficient virtual machine that everyone could target (someone mentioned LLVM -- although I really don't care what it is all that much).
It just feels like the web is in this weird cycle where we continue to make suboptimal choices... largely because that's how it was done the first time.
For example, the fact that you say there'd be plugin-hell with 30 plugins is crazy. A good management system should be able to efficiently handle hundreds or even millions of components.
And what if we standardized support for the scripting languages? So, for example, the DOM calls looked like RESTFUL services returning JSON. And maybe there was a low-level, but efficient virtual machine that everyone could target (someone mentioned LLVM -- although I really don't care what it is all that much).
It just feels like the web is in this weird cycle where we continue to make suboptimal choices... largely because that's how it was done the first time.