Java > Scala -> new thread: GUI for D

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-12-05 18:05, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "Somedude"<lovelydear at mailmetrash.com>  wrote in message
> news:jbhquu$1mj2$1 at digitalmars.com...
>> Le 04/12/2011 21:24, Jacob Carlborg a écrit :
>>>
>>> But the problem remains, CoffeeScript compiles to JavaScript so you are
>>> still limited by JS.
>>>
>> What about Lua ?
>> I find it pretty powerful for such a small language. And I do think it
>> makes sens to base a GUI on a scripting language.
>
> I'm with John Carmack on this one (not that I always agree with him): Using
> scripting for parts of your program just encourages the team to have
> non-programmers writing production code, and that's never a good thing
> (hell, there's a lot of *actual* programmers who don't even know what
> they're doing). And if the only people writing code are real programmers,
> they may as well just use a real langauge.
>
>> As for the choice of
>> Javascript with Qt, the choice is obvious: the goal is to be able to
>> write once and run anywhere (i.e on desktop, on mobile devices AND on
>> the web).
>
> That's a poor reason to aid in the proliferation of such a terrible
> language. It's also a poor reason to write one's own software in such a bad
> langauge. What's needed is for JS on the web to be replaced with a real
> langauge, or at least a sensible one (or better yet, for this "web as an
> applications platform" idiocy to finally end, but that's a separate matter).

Do you have any opinion about Dart from Google?

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/Jacob Carlborg