2011/2/9 spir <denis.s...@gmail.com>: > > Yop! this said, I recently read (no pointer, sorry) about a possibly > interesting third way: making the core language as close to orthogonal as > possible w/o making the rest difficult, then build compromises as sugar > layers around (syntactic & semantic). > This may be, actually, more or less close to how some actual languages are > actually constructed; but I find that making this principle intentonal and > intentional totally changes the whole approach. Also think this well fits > the design of PL with a main/core paradigm/style (not so for D, probably). > Isn't this how much of JavaScript is ACTUALLY used nowadays? jQuery, YUI, PrototypeJS?
Coding for limited embedded hardware, I'm personally hand-coding Javascript (without 3:d-party-libs) at work ATM, since I really need to know all effects (especially on the DOM) of everything I do. (Is something reading .offsetHeight? - i DEFINITELY need to know about it.) Outside the realm of embedded/limited hardware though, it seems few people are actually coding in pure JavaScript without "convenience"-libraries. Maybe it's the ASM of next decade.
