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Sweet! Another Javascript!?!

Started by Kyle Brady · 10 months ago

Scoble, the famous self-promoter who many people love-to-hate, did a short post tonight on “ECMAScript“, something of a mashup between C++ and Java that aims to replace (read: fix) Javascript. Is this good (everyone knows Javascript was poorly thought out ... Continue reading »

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  • Kyle Brady

    1 year ago

    A comment was just removed that said it's not based on either Java or C++.

    If you actually read the .pdf doc from them, you will see that phrase used exactly.

    --Kyle
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  • Boris

    1 year ago

    Except EC4 is completely backwards compatible with EC3 (existing JavaScript). That is, a valid EC3 program is a valid EC4 program. So it's not like moving from Fortran to C++. It's list keeping all the Fortran you already have and want, but being able to also link some C++ into the final executable.
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  • Kyle Brady

    1 year ago

    I guess I should have been more clear. When I made that comparison, what I meant was not that it's backwards incompatible, but rather that (to me at least) it seems like lightyears away from it's predecessor.

    Maybe the FORTRAN was an extreme comparison, but I still feel that it's very very different...
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