Nick Sabalausky wrote: > [snip] > > I disagree. Making all add-ons be interpreted scripts is one of the biggest > reasons why Firefox (especially v2) is so absurdly slow (not that I'm a fan > of IE, Opera or Safari). Also, the fact that the vast majority of scripting > languages lack descent compile-time checking (such as static type checking > or mandatory explicit declarations), or at least push it off as a secondary > concern (modern ECMAScript), creates a situation where plugins have a > tendancy to be unreliable.
There's an interesting talk Steve Yeggie gave a while back: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/05/dynamic-languages-strike-back.html There's also a video of it: http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=tz-Bb-D6teE -- Daniel
