From: Tony Arcieri <tony.arcieri@...>
Date: 2010-07-18T01:43:52+09:00
Subject: Re: client-side Ruby on iPad/iPhone?

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On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 12:46 AM, David Masover <ninja@slaphack.com> wrote:

> Do you really know JavaScript well enough to hate it? It's possible you're
> an
> exception, but most people who hate JavaScript don't seem to know it
> particularly well.


That's a pretty pretentious question to ask.  But I'll bite.

Am I a JavaScript expert?  But I know it fairly well.  I could sit here and
prattle off a couple dozen things I hate about JavaScript, like the
practically broken coersion model, the inconsistent and likewise broken core
types, including inexplicable and useless box objects for those types and
mismatches between the literals and what core types they map to ([]
instanceof Array is true but "" instanceof String is false???), the need for
a JQuery jock strap to even make the language tolerable by masking away all
the bizarre gymnastics you'd otherwise have to do to get basic functionality
out of the language, etc etc.

But like... this is ruby-talk, and the guy wants to use Ruby instead of
JavaScript.  I think you'll be extremely hard pressed to find anyone with
moderate level expertise in both languages who would disagree that Ruby is a
significantly better language than JavaScript.

-- 
Tony Arcieri
Medioh! A Kudelski Brand

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