Comments on: Someone hearts ECMAScript http://comments.deasil.com/2007/02/23/someone-hearts-ecmascript/ escape colon w q Sat, 22 Nov 2008 08:50:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: felix http://comments.deasil.com/2007/02/23/someone-hearts-ecmascript/#comment-60 felix Fri, 23 Feb 2007 18:33:09 +0000 http://comments.deasil.com/2007/02/23/someone-hearts-ecmascript/#comment-60 Heh! I haven't spent much time with YUI - started playing around with jQuery and like it a bunch. Javascript is definitely growing on me as I work with it more, but as a language it still seems a little ugly. I find myself gritting my teeth on occasion as I do something. But I persevere and who knows, perhaps once I'm fluent in it, things will seem more natural and correct to me. Heh! I haven’t spent much time with YUI - started playing around with jQuery and like it a bunch. Javascript is definitely growing on me as I work with it more, but as a language it still seems a little ugly. I find myself gritting my teeth on occasion as I do something. But I persevere and who knows, perhaps once I’m fluent in it, things will seem more natural and correct to me.

]]> By: Rick O http://comments.deasil.com/2007/02/23/someone-hearts-ecmascript/#comment-58 Rick O Fri, 23 Feb 2007 17:54:43 +0000 http://comments.deasil.com/2007/02/23/someone-hearts-ecmascript/#comment-58 Yeah, that post came from me spending a morning flipping back between some ActionScript for Flex and some JavaScript for a YUI AJAX app. I realized that it was the first time in a while that I had managed to get literally hundreds of lines of code and more UI done than I would have thought possible ... and yet I didn't feel like I had to brute force my way through the language. I spent the earlier part of the week coding a standalone app in Delphi, and some Java classes to work around limitations in ColdFusion. And as I thought back on how comparatively little I had accomplished in those languages, I realized it was because coding with them was like a series of prayers and mantras delivered while kneeling at church. Yeah, I get the bulletproof feeling that I've written something indestructible ... but I also feel exhausted from the effort. Sure, coding in JavaScript feels more like baking cupcakes than an entire Thanksgiving dinner. It's simple, fast to do, and comfortable. But! Given the right back-end (such as Flex or YUI), you can get a lot done in a short amount of time. The simplicity belies the functionality. Yeah, that post came from me spending a morning flipping back between some ActionScript for Flex and some JavaScript for a YUI AJAX app. I realized that it was the first time in a while that I had managed to get literally hundreds of lines of code and more UI done than I would have thought possible … and yet I didn’t feel like I had to brute force my way through the language.

I spent the earlier part of the week coding a standalone app in Delphi, and some Java classes to work around limitations in ColdFusion. And as I thought back on how comparatively little I had accomplished in those languages, I realized it was because coding with them was like a series of prayers and mantras delivered while kneeling at church. Yeah, I get the bulletproof feeling that I’ve written something indestructible … but I also feel exhausted from the effort.

Sure, coding in JavaScript feels more like baking cupcakes than an entire Thanksgiving dinner. It’s simple, fast to do, and comfortable. But! Given the right back-end (such as Flex or YUI), you can get a lot done in a short amount of time. The simplicity belies the functionality.

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