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Everybody hates Javascript

Name: Anonymous 2012-07-22 12:05

It's a fact: no one likes to code in Javascript, but it's the only programming language used by web browsers and new engines like V8 are fast as hell.
There are things like CoffeeScript and Fly to translate to JS, but translating one scripting language to another is shitty...

Let's say that you work on the Google Chrome Developers team and you can propose a new scripting language. There was another thread on /prog/ about using LISP, but let's be more realistic in this thread. The new language would be also implemented on V8.
So, what programming language would you propose?

Name: Anonymous 2012-07-23 17:17

REPLACE JS BY SCHEME
it should be noted that Jamie Zawinski worked on Netscape, he is an expert Lisp programmer who made XEmacs (most of the improved code in XEmacs got put back into GNU Emacs). Jamie is a dedicated C programmer who was against the idea of switching to C++.

Name: Anonymous 2012-07-23 20:38

>>40
right, its not, its meant to replace C++, and I hope they succeed because FF is a posterchild for C++ memory leaks

Name: Anonymous 2012-07-23 22:43

>>42
What about my not, my meant to replace C++?!

Name: Anonymous 2012-07-24 0:43

>>42
Because Mozilla doesn't write C++. They write C-style C++, which is just as prone to C-style errors (like mem leaks) as C.

Name: Anonymous 2012-07-24 2:40

>>44
Im pretty sure that is not true as I have read interviews of Mozilla programmers talking about using OO style throughout. Since Firefox is open source Im sure there is info somewhere describing exactly the style of programming used.

Name: Anonymous 2012-07-24 3:38

>>45
Im
Is this a friend of Ive?

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