The Javascript Problem | CR 18

Posted on: October 8, 2012

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The Javascript Problem | CR 18

Mike and Chris take a walk down a dangerous and controversial road — the state of Javascript in modern web development.

Plus a frank look at TypeScript, blaming developers, your emails, and much more.

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Show Notes:

Feedback

  • Jay wants to know how the Android update cycle and the device manufacturers’ different versions of Android affect developers.
  • Carlo’s email
  • Isak asks what we think about Typescript
  • Charles writes in with some more info on Haskell
  • Matt shares an interesting article about Adobe
  • Matt (diff Matt?) is working on an iOS app that will have a server backend component and is wondering how to make a profit on the app — given the hosting costs over time.

This Week’s Dev World Hoopla

The Language Itself

  • No classical inheritance.
  • Too loose

Developers

  • Too stupid / lazy??
  • Too sloppy??

Tool of the Week

Book of the Week

  • Christopher Urie

    Why the swich to the Youtube player.

  • ChrisLAS

    You’re just a bit early for the WebM version to finish encoding. Once it’s done, I swap in the HTML5 player!

    I take it you prefer the HTML5 player over YouTube? What strikes you as a difference between the two?

    -Chris

  • SnakeDoc

    NEW CODER RADIO!!! WAHOOOOO!!!!

  • David Plassmann

    Hej Chris,
    I prefer the html5 player for a couple of reasons:
    *It just looks way better than the youtube player
    *i have flash disabled by default so for me to use the YouTube player i would have to enable flash for this site.
    *The environment just loves me for saving cpu cycles by not using flash
    *Fullscreen in the html5 player is much slicker. Especially if you have two monitors.

  • http://www.ecimtech.com Psy

    I don’t think it was mentioned, but Adobe Edge Code is based on the Adobe Brackets, open source and on GitHub: https://github.com/adobe/brackets
    Not sure if Adobe has plans to improve the editor itself or just add some services/tools around it.

  • ChrisLAS

    Good to know! Thanks :)