• bearophile <bearophileHUGS lycos.com> Oct 18 2010
• Justin Johansson <no spam.com> Oct 18 2010
• Jeff Nowakowski <jeff dilacero.org> Oct 18 2010
• Gianluigi <gianluigi grsoft.org> Oct 18 2010
• Jeff Nowakowski <jeff dilacero.org> Oct 18 2010
• Iain Buclaw <ibuclaw ubuntu.com> Oct 18 2010
• Emil Madsen <sovende gmail.com> Oct 18 2010
• Eric Poggel <dnewsgroup2 yage3d.net> Oct 18 2010

bearophile <bearophileHUGS lycos.com> writes:

Andrei:

 Discusses a few languages including D: 
 http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/dsdd6/the_next_big_language_2010_edition/


The "Next Big Language" will probably be JavaScript.

Bye,
bearophile

Justin Johansson <no spam.com> writes:

On 18/10/2010 10:11 PM, bearophile wrote:
 Andrei:

 Discusses a few languages including D:
 http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/dsdd6/the_next_big_language_2010_edition/


 The "Next Big Language" will probably be JavaScript.

 Bye,
 bearophile


What encourages you to say so.  JavaScript is already pretty
much ubiquitous so perhaps one might say that it is the
"Contemporary Big Language" but do you think it will become
even bigger (perhaps in its next version?) to take on the
title of the "Next Big Language" posthumously?

Regards, Justin

Jeff Nowakowski <jeff dilacero.org> writes:

On 10/18/2010 07:11 AM, bearophile wrote:
 The "Next Big Language" will probably be JavaScript.


I see JavaScript as being stuck in the browser for the foreseeable 
future. It does have some usage outside the browser, but not much.

Gianluigi <gianluigi grsoft.org> writes:

  Il 18/10/10 16.10, Jeff Nowakowski ha scritto:
 I see JavaScript as being stuck in the browser for the foreseeable 
 future. It does have some usage outside the browser, but not much.


build server side software ...

GR

Jeff Nowakowski <jeff dilacero.org> writes:

On 10/18/2010 11:14 AM, Gianluigi wrote:
 Take a look at http://nodejs.org/, there's someone willing to use JS to
 build server side software ...


Yeah, I saw the Google Tech-talk for that. As I said, usage outside the 
browser exists, but not much. The talk had some interesting ideas, but I 
don't see why he chose JavaScript as the implementation language. He 
said C is a pain to work with, and I agree, but JavaScript seems like an 
odd fallback solution for server-side work.

Iain Buclaw <ibuclaw ubuntu.com> writes:

== Quote from Jeff Nowakowski (jeff dilacero.org)'s article
 On 10/18/2010 07:11 AM, bearophile wrote:
 The "Next Big Language" will probably be JavaScript.


 future. It does have some usage outside the browser, but not much.


Gnome-Shell, a prototype Desktop Environment for Gnome3, is written in
Javascript
(and C for Clutter bindings); uses CSS for theming. Having seen some recent
demos
and screenshots of what people can do with it, the end result is quite
magnificent. At least, in my humble opinion. =)

Emil Madsen <sovende gmail.com> writes:

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I see a lot of applications going into the browser, in the future, but thats
maybe just me :)

On 18 October 2010 16:10, Jeff Nowakowski <jeff dilacero.org> wrote:

 On 10/18/2010 07:11 AM, bearophile wrote:

 The "Next Big Language" will probably be JavaScript.


 I see JavaScript as being stuck in the browser for the foreseeable future.
 It does have some usage outside the browser, but not much.




-- 
// Yours sincerely
// Emil 'Skeen' Madsen

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/ Emil &#39;Skeen&#39; Madsen<br>

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Eric Poggel <dnewsgroup2 yage3d.net> writes:

On 10/18/2010 7:11 AM, bearophile wrote:
 Andrei:

 Discusses a few languages including D:
 http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/dsdd6/the_next_big_language_2010_edition/


 The "Next Big Language" will probably be JavaScript.

 Bye,
 bearophile


I love javascript for small-to-medium jobs (I even use it with Windows 
Scripting Host instead of batch files), but I'd hate to use something 
without static typing on a large project.

As the usual argument goes... change a function's name, arguments, or 
argument types and you don't know what else breaks until you're careful 
to run it through all of the possible scenarios.