Re:Ask HN: Why not fix JavaScript?
by cageface on Monday April 18, 2011 @03:19AM
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I can't find the words to express how much happier I am with to be working again on a platform (iOS) that was designed from the ground up to build rich UIs. HTML apps are such a grotesque heap of hacks in comparison.
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Excellent point. Thats the same experience I had when moved to the flash platform, some years back.
Now that I am coming back to html-javascript, i can help but feel frustrated by the mess that is html app development.
My dream for the web platform, would be that the committees would create some kind of underlying bytecode and basic graphic primitives. On top of which different programming languages and graphic Apis could be implemented. Then, to develop hyperlinked documents, you can use an hyperlinked document oriented API. To develop complex UI, you can use a complex UI oriented API.
Maybe the web is now near that goal. Javascript could be the bytecode. And the DOM (wich I hate with passion) could be replaced by a GUI toolkit build on top of the html canvas. I would love to work on that, if I had time available.