On Saturday, 17 August 2013 at 16:43:14 UTC, Piotr Szturmaj wrote:
What happens when you forget a semicolon or a comma? Or make
some typos? It silently breaks. I don't care if there are tools
to help with it. It's still a mess. Did you see WAT
(https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat) ? If not, please
do. Here are some examples of JS "additions" which WAT
demonstrated:
[] + [] // yields empty string
[] + {} // [object Object]
{} + [] // 0
{} + {} // NaN
Seriously, WTF!
I could explain, but I'm not sure you are interested. The
ambiguity on that one come from {} being either an object literal
or a block statement.
I feel pretty confident I can do a wat speech for D.
Obviously, you can't share every possible code. It's about
sharing the cross cutting parts. Imagine an application with a
server, web frontend and desktop frontend. With shared
codebases, you could write one client code. Just use the same
abstractions for the web and for the desktop. Then you can
create similar interfaces from the same codebase. It's a huge
win. Duplicating efforts is tiresome, error prone and obviously
takes time.
It has already been done, but didn't caught up. Actually I can't
even find theses project in google, so I guess ti was a compete
fail.
It worked, but cause many problem, especially securitywise.
