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Re:RubyJS: A JavaScript standard library based on the Ruby c... by doktrin on Monday January 21, 2013 @02:45AM (#5090408)
Agree to disagree. The JS native library is incredibly rudimentary by "modern" standards. Even something as basic as comparing two arrays requires either hand rolling a solution or reaching out to a separate library.
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Re:RubyJS: A JavaScript standard library based on the Ruby c... by kimmel on Monday January 21, 2013 @03:12AM (#5090482)
A thousand times this. Javascript as a modern language for non-web things is not mature at all. The amount of date/time, string, and hash utility functions that JS simply does not have is staggering.
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