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Re: The JavaScript Problem

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Nope. JS has technical problems which were all stated clearly and with references to academic works and industry examples (Google). You simply choose to ignore my carefully worded criticism calling it a “rant” and an “easy answer” and “à la mode”, with talk of irrelevant things like C/C++ and platitudes about Turing machines.

Sorry to see you downvoting a comment which doesn't please your expectations. 1) You are ignoring the notion of some, if not most, of the incriminated features being also present in highly regarded languages. 2) "Most of the rants" (please mind the plural) doesn't address your post, but is on certain communities which are producing anti-JavaScripts post in series. 3) "easy answer" is quite what it means. There are so…

So you didn't read this (again)? Yes, it's a carefully worded criticism on my side, too. And as is clearly stated in the intro of the initial post, it's on criticism on a language from the point of view of a community formed around an other language in general. (I'm in the JS-business for 18 years now and have contributed some to its use, so I would appreciate it, if you would consider this to be more than just a deliberate utterance.)

And BTW, you accused me of things (in the post above) that weren't in my statement at all. I was just pointing out that there was in deed a point made by briantakita by noting that the various articles on JS published lately are mostly originating from communities grouped around other languages. And that perspectives may vary. Even the criticism on JS varies over time.

Re: The JavaScript Problem

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post #163

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I recently had write up for a README how to install the JDK and set it up correctly on OSX. You'd be surprised. Thanks to Oracle's policies it isn't even close to where other runtimes/sdks are (e.g. installing ruby, node, gcc, go, ocaml).

With homebrew and homebrew-cask installed on Mac OS 10.9, I was simply able to do: brew cask install java That might not cover the bases for every Java developer's needs, but leiningen seems to work fine with the resulting installation.

I'll have to look into versions (gotta be java7) but that looks pretty great - thanks!

Re: The JavaScript Problem

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Horses are okay, but they're expensive, require much more maintenance, can only go about 40mph for a brief period of time, and can only seat two people, uncomfortably. And you're telling people who want to build roads to put cars on “why not just think in horses for a change?”

I never found javascript to be expensive. Sorry, but incorrect analogy.

> Sorry, but incorrect analogy.

You might as well say "incorrect human being", but okay.

> I never found javascript to be expensive.

That's very good for you. I'd stick with JavaScript if I didn't find it a horrible maintenance burden. But I do. You're free to differ, but you must accept my experience as part my criticism, you can't discard that and then attack what remains.

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