2011-10-23, 07:40 PM
Spaz Wrote:But how many of those over 111 offer type checking? A mere 6 including Dart (only 4 of which are open-source) are listed under the "Static typing" header, with a note that some others in the last offer it too. Dart seems to be (?) the only one with type checking with aspirations for native browser support.I don't think type checking suddenly makes everything much better. I mean, what's true of every bug out in the field? It has passed the type checker, and it has passed all the tests. It's much more critical that you're able to reason around the language. That should be first priority.
Spaz Wrote:I just want something better than Javascript to gain widespread support.CoffeeScript is big. Clojure is extremely large for being a 5 year old language, so ClojureScript may have some potential. I haven't really done JS/client-side web programming, so I can't really say whether those are better or worse than good old JS. However, they have quite high popularity among web programmers who use cutting edge technology, so I assume they have some sort of value.