Comments on: On Leaky Abstractions and Objective-J

By: Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 10:59:00 +0000

Don’t let the trolls get you down, “A Foolish Consistency is the Hobgoblin of Little Minds”.

I’m all in…ready and waiting for Atlas Beta for Windows!

Just for the sake of discussion, wouldn’t the second diagram be SVG + Javascript?

Also, I’m thinking about the step to the third diagram with ???, where Javascript really is out of the picture. I was thinking GWT might bridge that gap better. After, more thought, that is so far down the road, I doubt GWT would be any more relevant. I also wouldn’t want to discount the significance of being able to edit/refresh the browser as you say…ultimately developing right in the browser! Also, this is where your build tools might someday get their guts replaced to migrate to ???.

By: Johnlabarge

Johnlabarge — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 06:00:42 +0000

This article was absolutely fantastic.

By: Joel Norvell

Joel Norvell — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 03:39:33 +0000

I think this is a brilliant article. For me, Cappuccino and Objective-J are an incredible and unexpected boon — providing a way out of the client-bound, and a way forward onto the web — a real future, but one that doesn't require the sacrifice of my past!

By: penny

penny — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 02:05:12 +0000

smalltalk like syntax is what won me in the first place….You have to program as you talk..this is what i call syntax…well, smalltalk.

By: Tim

Tim — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 02:33:31 +0000

P.S. I also felt the need to respond to John Resig with a post of my own
http://web.2point1.com/2009/01/03/a-response-to...

By: Tim

Tim — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 01:11:29 +0000

That's an extensive article, great work.
I totally agree that the likes of Prototype and jQuery are limited as they don't extend the syntax. Furthermore the sugared-syntax that with its clever use of whitespace is very unintuitive indeed, and stands in the way of developers new to JavaScript gaining any real understanding of it.

It is at this point that I must plug my own project which is an abstraction in ActionScript. You write AS3 and the JASPA compiler generates regular JavaScript from it. http://www.jaspa.org.uk/

By: Tim

Tim — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 20:33:31 +0000

P.S. I also felt the need to respond to John Resig with a post of my own
http://web.2point1.com/2009/01/03/a-response-to...

By: Tim

Tim — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 19:11:29 +0000

By: tlrobinson

tlrobinson — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 01:12:55 +0000

Thanks. Also fixed.

By: tlrobinson

tlrobinson — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 01:12:29 +0000

Thanks. Fixed.