[arch-general] why I'd rather use Python over Javascript for web development

Kaiting Chen kaitocracy at gmail.com
Tue Dec 14 14:56:47 EST 2010


On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 2:44 PM, C Anthony Risinger <anthony at 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.

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