Ask: Why do web developers think the only applications people use are web apps?

Re:Ask: Why do web developers think the only applications pe... by gwenhwyfaer on Wednesday September 19, 2007 @09:27PM (#57152)

> the really intensive javascript apps just use way too much memory in Firefox, especially when you have 12 hour Firefox sessions

I suspect that huge improvements in the state of Javascript interpreters will really start to change the equations. If JS is Lisp in disguise, there's no reason why JS engines can't start to benefit from the decades of evolution put into Common Lisp runtimes.

Come to think of it, what if a JS engine got fast enough that the browser itself could be written in Javascript?

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Re:Ask: Why do web developers think the only applications pe... by rms on Wednesday September 19, 2007 @09:31PM (#57155)

For now, we're getting some nice incremental improvements. Firefox 3 Alpha is worth using just for the improved JS engine.

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Re:Ask: Why do web developers think the only applications pe... by AF on Wednesday September 19, 2007 @11:33PM (#57221)

Hey gwen...what do you mean by this: "If JS is Lisp in disguise"?

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Re:Ask: Why do web developers think the only applications pe... by mcxx on Thursday September 20, 2007 @04:55AM (#57323)

Well, look at parenscript for example. It's quite easy to translate Lisp into JS. Moreover, the first prototype of JS engine in Firefox was written in Lisp.

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