Sujet : Re: basic BASIC question
De : ldo (at) *nospam* nz.invalid (Lawrence D'Oliveiro)
Groupes : comp.os.vmsDate : 06. Feb 2025, 22:13:18
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On Thu, 6 Feb 2025 09:50:21 -0500, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
Small code bases, frequent releases and high user tolerance for small
ooopses favor a language like JavaScript. Ada would not work well in
this context from a business perspective.
JavaScript is also a dynamic language, unlike Ada. Maybe not as dynamic as
Python, but still lets you do a lot in quite compact code.
I’m not sure I agree with the “tolerance for small ooopses”. There is a
thing called “use strict”, which helps catch common JavaScript errors. It
is even enforced in new-style modules.
Code bases are not small anymore though. And TypeScript has taken huge
chunks of market share from JavaScript in recent years.
TypeScript is just an attempt to add static typing to JavaScript. Maybe it
works for native-side code bases (i.e. not in a browser sandbox). But then
you pair it with Electron as your “GUI toolkit”, and you wonder why
Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code is such a huge download for such little
functionality ...
basic BASIC question
Re: basic BASIC question