JavaScript bloat

>"In 1998, a complex JavaScript application was a few dozen lines of code. By 2008, leading-edge Web applications like Hotmail, Gmail, and CNN.com included hundreds of thousands of lines of JavaScript," said the Microsoft JavaScript team members, Shanku Niyogi, Amanda Silver, John Montgomery, Luke Hoban, and Steve Lucco. "Today, there are Web applications with a million lines of JavaScript. These Web applications look more and more like the applications we run on our desktops."

http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-57330431-264/microsoft-shoots-down-googles-dart-language/

i'll orgasm once javascript displaces other languages and is the only option for application development. the web is the future and javascript is definite the most elegant language in use today. it's the right tool for the job, people. get in or get the fuck out

Not dubz related.

posts like these deep down make me wonder

   

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>>4
they make me wonder why it took so long for javascript to dominate

>>4
they make me wonder why it took so int for javascript to dominate

The problem with Javascript is that it doesn't work without other languages. Fuck that shit.

>>6,7
JavaScript has only doubles, no ints or longs.

>>6,7
JavaScript has only troubles, no ints or longs.

>>6,7
JavaScript has only muggles, no wizards or warlocks.

These Web applications look more and more like the applications we run on our desktops
They also don't behave like a desktop application.
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/12/avoiding-the-uncanny-valley-of-user-interface.html

is it really anyones dream to re write desktop applications so they can run in a browser?

In the old days, desktop applications could at full speed run on computers with a few MHz of CPU speed and a few megabytes of RAM. Now, they require a few GHz of CPU speed and a many megabytes of RAM, because they're all written in JavaScript.

>>14
Inefficient JS compilers.

One thing I was looking forward to looking at Dart was static types. If you have static typing in JavaScript, you could really drive performance ... Once you figure that out, there's not so much difference between typed languages like C or C++.

IHBT!

If you really needs typed vars you can hack them in with typed arrays(use vars from 1 array elem only)
a=Uint32Array(1) //<-- this is a uint32 pointed value as array
a[0]=1
a[0]-=2
document.write(a[0])
result:
4294967295

>>17
Hashtable object to represent a single integer? Terrible!

http://www.scn.org/~mentifex/AiMind.html

in JavaScript is only about 4,500 lines of
free, Open-Source AI code, soon to be improved
with new features imported from the German AI

http://www.scn.org/~mentifex/DeKi.txt

>>18
yeah, see http://dis.4chan.org/read/prog/1319817001/269-274