On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 2:44 PM, C Anthony Risinger <anthony@extof.me>wrote:
) JS is completely unstructured. powerful, but causes developers to implement many things that would be a part of the core syntax in other langs ) the ^^^^ causes many different impls of the same, and new devs to misuse the really great things about JS, like first-class closures. leads to absolutely obtuse and horrendous looking libraries, with weird semantics for its usage, like passing objects to emulate named arguments, and a hundred other more prudent examples. ) umpteen number of naunces between browsers, browser versions, and half-eaten standards.
yes, JS has some decent libraries, and widget sets (don't say extjs). but pyjamas can be ran as a 100% python desktop app too.
I see. One more question, what's wrong with ExtJS? It's my favorite Javascript library of all time. --Kaiting. -- Kiwis and Limes: http://kaitocracy.blogspot.com/