Re:JSX - a faster, safer, easier alternative to JavaScript
by zenocon on Wednesday May 30, 2012 @10:08PM
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Looks like ActionScript, which is already based off ECMAScript...why not just use that, or extend what's already there? Getting adoption for a brand new language is tough, plus there's already a ton of software/libraries/tools written in As3
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Re:JSX - a faster, safer, easier alternative to JavaScript
by deafbybeheading on Wednesday May 30, 2012 @10:18PM
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ActionScript running directly in the browser could be interesting. It has some cruft (much of it shared with JS due to the ECMAScript heritage), and the ECMAScript lineage leads to some weird features (e.g., typically its class-based inheritance is used, but it does include prototype inheritance), but it's not a bad language.