Pythonisms vs. JavaScriptures: what's your favorite?

Pythonisms vs. JavaScriptures: what's your favorite?(dutherenverseauborddelatable.wordpress.com)

11 points by ventu 14 years ago | 7 comments

Half the tools on the web shred whitespace. Being whitespace-sensitive is going to make it painful to talk about your language and hinder adoption, unless there's a more robust yet readable syntax that's trivial to convert to and from.

Also, the framework is not producing progressive enhancement markup or running js on your server. "Write this:" on http://opalang.org/ is an empty div, and http://chat.opalang.org/ has no form to submit and does nothing. Sorry, I simply couldn't use it in its current state.

Yoric 14 years ago | |

> Half the tools on the web shred whitespace. Being whitespace-sensitive is going to make it painful to talk about your language and hinder adoption, unless there's a more robust yet readable syntax that's trivial to convert to and from.

Interesting point. On the other hand, the source code goes through a compiler before anything happens, so none of the tools you mention would touch the source code.

> Also, the framework is not producing progressive enhancement markup or running js on your server.

No, it's not. Why should it?

> "Write this:" on http://opalang.org/ is an empty div, and http://chat.opalang.org/ has no form to submit and does nothing. Sorry, I simply couldn't use it in its current state.

Er, what? That sounds very surprising, since I'm currently using the chat. Are you using Opera Mini or are you blocking JS?

prodigal_erik 14 years ago | | |

Every broken js-only resource is a step backwards towards the client-server hell the web delivered us from, with siloed content that can't be repurposed because there's only one hunk of client code that even knows how to access it. No progressive enhancement support is a severe limitation for any web framework to have, and should at least be disclosed to potential authors if you aren't going to fix it.

ventu 14 years ago | |

Isn't javascript blocked by your browser? (Are you using IE6?)

ventu 14 years ago |

Let's get a bit technical, we really expect you to share with us.

Yoric 14 years ago | |

I should add that this conversation is about the Opa platform (http://opalang.org). The feedback we are currently gathering from the community is going to play an extremely important role in shaping the future of Opa.