On 2012-03-02 19:13, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
"Jacob Carlborg"<d...@me.com> wrote in message
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On 2012-02-29 18:46, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
"Alex Rønne Petersen"<xtzgzo...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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On 29-02-2012 18:32, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
On 2/26/12 9:51 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
https://github.com/downloads/adamdruppe/dtojs/dtojs.zip
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That's interesting. So the idea is to make an entire subset of D
convertible to Javascript?
What use cases do you have in mind?
Andrei
Avoiding writing JS directly in web apps comes to mind.
Yea, creating JS without having to actually *write* JS is a huge use-case
in
and of itself.
(I still can't believe the web has standardized on such an absolute shit
langauge. Hell, two of them if you count PHP on the server.)
Five if you count HTML, CSS and SQL as well.
Very true, but a far as shittiness goes, JS and PHP are in a whole other
league (IMO).
Yeah, I agree. I'm just saying, thank god I don't have to use PHP in my
job. I'm using CoffeeScript instead of JavaScript whenever I can which
makes it a bit more bearable. Yes I know many people here don't like CS,
specially the syntax, but it fixes several of the most annoying things
about JS.
Actually, HTML/CSS for what they are - *document* description formats -
really aren't all that bad. The only real *major* problem with HTML/CSS is
not the formats themselves, but the fact that people keep abusing them as
application presentation layers, which they clearly aren't and were never
intended to be. (And basing an entire application around the
deliberately-stateless HTTP? Seriously? WTF?)
Latex isn't bad (from what little I've seen), but if people started
pretending it was a presentation layer for programs, then yea, it would
completely blow for that. But that's exactly what people did with HTML/CSS.
So HTML and CSS get a bad reputation when really the true blame lies with
the people pushing for their misuse. (Not that HTML/CSS couldn't be improved
even as pure document formats.)
Yes, I think both HTML and CSS could be improved a lot. One of the most
annoying things is there's no good way to handle scoping. SASS
(regardless of which syntax you choose to use) makes this problem less
annoying and fixes several other issues with CSS. The fact that you most
likely uses a server side language to output HTML fixes many of the
problems with HTML.
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/Jacob Carlborg
