Not an endorsement of Dart at all, considering people who haven't really learned javascript by now are going to be the same people who won't really learn Dart in the future.
Guilty. Any recommendations for learning?
edit: I have the rhino book. I meant, learning alternatives to organizing my code as a series of jQuery event bindings.
Re:Microsoft shoots down Google's Dart
by johnbender on Wednesday November 23, 2011 @02:22PM
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Yehuda Katz has a nice article on the prototype system that I generally point people to.
http://yehudakatz.com/2011/08/12/understanding-prototypes-in...
And the JavaScript Patterns book is a good read to get an overview of what can be done with just JavaScript. If your application is even remotely complex you'll probably end up using something like backbone or sproutcore which provide constructs for organizing your code anyway.
Douglas Crockford is the best JS teacher I've come across.
This video series is excellent (and provides a bit of CS history) http://yuiblog.com/crockford/
Also his book, Javascript: The Good Parts
My favorite is 'JavaScript Patterns' (http://www.amazon.com/JavaScript-Patterns-Stoyan-Stefanov/dp...).
This is only from my own experience but I'm consistently blown away by how little people actually know of JavaScript. Between interviews and looking at samples attached to jQuery Mobile issues all day I get the impression that most people don't know how to use the prototype system at all and generally organize their code as a series of jQuery event bindings.
While this isn't necessarily and endorsement of Dart, I welcome anything that can provide/encourage well-known and sane code reuse patterns.