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Re:Tessel: The end of web development as we know it by w1ntermute on Monday September 30, 2013 @12:19AM (#6467755)
How about Ruby or Python?
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Re:Tessel: The end of web development as we know it by TinyBig on Monday September 30, 2013 @12:58AM (#6467877)
There is already a strong effort in Ruby land - check out http://artoo.io/. Artoo was developed with robotics in mind but it is not limited to that domain.
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Re:Tessel: The end of web development as we know it by ssafejava on Monday September 30, 2013 @01:13AM (#6467915)
You could - but V8 is actually much faster than Ruby or Python, and JS syntax is quite good for I/O. Better than that, a ton of people know JS and the more developers find this accessible, the better.
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Re:Tessel: The end of web development as we know it by w1ntermute on Monday September 30, 2013 @01:23AM (#6467946)
> V8 is actually much faster than Ruby or Python

Actually, they are compiling to Lua bytecode in this case.

> JS syntax is quite good for I/O

And you can pass around blocks in Ruby.

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Re:Tessel: The end of web development as we know it by aaronem on Monday September 30, 2013 @05:50PM (#6472623)
And you can't in Javascript? Sure, the syntax is a little clunky, but the semantics are precisely the same.
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Re:Tessel: The end of web development as we know it by shmerl on Monday September 30, 2013 @12:25AM (#6467771)
Or Rust for example.
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