Redex Posted September 27, 2013 Share Posted September 27, 2013 Just want opinions on this language, and the nature of it. Also the complexity of learning it? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a_bertrand Posted September 28, 2013 Share Posted September 28, 2013 Is JavaScript a good language? No it is not. It is more the kind of hack to make it work. Is it a useful language to learn? Well if you work with web interfaces, then it is nearly a must. Complexity? Depends, can be from very simple things to quite complex one, what is more difficult is the browser API like the DOM. Google chrome offers a great integrated debugger and webstorm would help you as well in the task. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Posted September 28, 2013 Share Posted September 28, 2013 (edited) To offer a different opinion, yes it is an excellent language to learn. Portability springs to mind unlike a lot of languages; it can run both client and server side (see the excellent node.js), supports event driven, multi-threading, classes; it is a good cruft free language, syntactically elegant, and is widely supported. Web side of things, certainly a tremendous amount of sites use some form of javascript so it is fast becoming a key "must have" skill for any type of web development, and with the addition of server-side, is rapidly becoming an ideal prototyping tool all the way up to credible applications. There are huge number of libraries out there for it, like all languages - some good, some bad; there are languages written that produce javascript that provide a different some would say simpler way of writing javascript (for example CoffeeScript), user-interface tools are too innumerable to mention outside of JQuery and friends. Or perhaps you need a solid reference such as Mozilla's JavaScript reference (one of the best imo). The only other point I'll make is that is under very active development. The language as a whole is being continually refined, libraries are being produced daily to cover almost every topic under the sun, new features are carefully introduced to language with a lot of discussion with the industry as a whole. Edited September 28, 2013 by Alan Typo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redex Posted September 28, 2013 Author Share Posted September 28, 2013 Cheers Alan and Bertrand. Will look into it more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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