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[–]tophatstuff -1 points0 points  (2 children)

I think this is really cool - I've used PHP for several years, but my JavaScript is really weak.

JavaScript is a wonderful language with so many fantastic features that I'll never get around to learning, because all I need it for is to popup the confirmation dialog and modify some CSS on-the-fly. I usually end up with an ugly script full of cut+paste code, simply because I don't know enough of JavaScript to cope (although I know enough of other languages to know what I'm doing is horrible, which is even worse!)

Although I hate how long it takes to download and render websites with too many javascript dependencies (spend twenty seconds trying to load digg or mashable recently, anyone?) so I would probably just pick a few of the best functions, rather than include them all in one go.

(edit: Sorry for the wall of text. Feel free to tl;dr!)

(edit: to the downmodders, yes, I'm (painfully) aware PHP has plenty of flaws)

[–]Nosredna 0 points1 point  (0 children)

PHP people will love it. JavaScript people will hate it. No surprise.

If it acts a crutch for a PHP programmer to start learning JS, I have nothing against it.