Why is Chrome a virus? I'd like to know so I can stop using it if necessary
On Saturday, 8 August 2015, Greg Keogh <gfke...@gmail.com> wrote: > We were using VS 2013, which want too bad with JS intellisense, etc. >> Compile time checking would help, but I think that's only available for >> TypeScript. >> > Okay, err, overall this isn't sounding great to me. I don't even have > Chrome installed (I reckon it's a virus) and I see others are also using it > for development. I have also found the VS2015 JS intellisense to be flakey > and misleading. Does the JS development experience have to be so retarded? > Surely others here must have some way of being as productive as we can be > writing strongly typed languages in a good IDE?! > > This is the future of software development for web client apps is it? > JavaScript is the typeless assembly-like script that is wrapped by > libraries like jQuery to try and make it more digestible and round down the > host incompatibilities, which is then wrapped by further libraries to > create the illusion of binding and asynchrony. In previous decades I wrote > reasonably serious "apps" in scripting languages like CLIST and Visual > REXX, but there was an insanity point beyond which the limits of the > language stonewalled you and you wasted time and you had to be mature > enough to decide to move to a "serious" language and development > environment. Sadly, in the 21st century, the scripting language > (JavaScript) has become a cancerous growth that won't die after almost 20 > years, it's been pushed to ludicrous levels of abstraction insanity, and > the one great hope that could have killed it (Silverlight) was buried > without a funeral. > > Oh well, back to writing JavaScript and html in Notepad (lucky I don't > have to use punched cards). > > *Greg K* >
