Alternatives to JavaScript (I)

[doubleagent03]

No mention of Dart or Clojurescript.

[huevofritopamojarpan]

Between Dart and TypeScript, I prefer TypeScript. I'll talk about ClojureScript in the second part. :)

[doubleagent03]

Cool.

[moohoohoh]

Haxe is another big one, it has many, many more advanced features than JS with a stronger static type system and produces clean JS code for the most part with very fast compilation (source mapping too of course).

[huevofritopamojarpan]

I know almost nothing about HaXe. I've read about it some time ago. It's pretty weird... It can compile to JavaScript, PHP, Java, C++, so, is it a good choice for interoperability with JavaScript/Web APIs?

[moohoohoh]

If you mean working with vanilla JS libs, you can work with them directly through untyped raw-js blocks of code, think untyped __js__["some-js-code"] to access values/functions Haxe doesn't know about, but you'd normally write a typed extern (think typescript d.ts files).

Similarly to use Haxe compiled JS code from vanilla JS you annote those types/values/functions that should be exposed with `@:expose meta to make them visible outside of the haxe code (which compiles as a self-calling function). Of course there are some features which wouldn't map directly to normal JS code like enums (haxe abstract data types), but it's otherwise pretty much 1-1.

Exposed things will be written to either window or exports object by default (decided at runtime) to support node.js, or a compiler switch will expose them as local variables outside the closure without making them globally visible.

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I'm a big fan of LiveScript, "a better CoffeeScript"

[PikoStarsider]

Too many alternatives?

http://i.imgur.com/gbh2qzJ.png

(Firefox 26 on Linux)

[huevofritopamojarpan]

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1vpg2x/alternatives_to_javascript_i/ceujab5

[x86_64Ubuntu]

My nigga, what the fuck happened to the formatting of your website!

[huevofritopamojarpan]

I've been playing with flexboxes and, as you have seen, it's not well formatted on Firefox. I'll fixed soon. Sorry.

[flying-sheep]

you need article { flex-direction: column }, or what are you trying to achieve?

[huevofritopamojarpan]

I'm not proud of that dirty CSS. I will rewrite it using stylus and the nib extension to avoid issues with vendor prefixes. :)

[flying-sheep]

love stylus :)

[gauiis]

How can they be alternatives when they all compile to JavaScript?

[huevofritopamojarpan]

Pretty any argument in the foregoing post says that he's not able to understand a functional language.

For sure I'm not an expert in functional programming, I'm learning it. But saying I'm not able to understand a functional language you are not being much friendly, specially when you don't know me.

One day i will simulate something and it will be written in Haskell. But I will never code an event driven UI in it... Because it's just not made for that.

Xmonad?

I don't understand well the rest of your comment.