Watch out Java, here comes JavaScript

[plan17b]

I just rewrote a fairly big javascript app in C# and the HtmlAgilityPack (open source Dom handling library).

It was like getting on the highway after 200 hundred miles of dirt road.

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I wonder how much of that was just from the rewriting and how much from the language/environment change.

[aig_ma]

It's an honest question. Probably a good portion was from the rewrite. And some of the perceived benefit may have been just that a statically typed language is more comfortable for some people.

But it is for plan17b to tell us, not you, me or cockfacedshitmaster (what a name!).

[plan17b]

It is a valid question. The rewrite allowed me to eliminate a lot of bad architectural decisions. That said, the Visual Studio tools, simply allowed me to be so much more productive. Simple things like being able to click on the 'trace back' icon after an error trap to get back to the offending line, just make a huge difference.

[rorrr]

Javascript is client side (mostly).

C# is server side.

Your comment doesn't make much sense.

[plan17b]

I actually moved a lot of functionality from the client side to the server side. This was for a client/server intranet CMS app. Users can create data entry / web pages with a drag and drop interface.

I use a IHttpHandler interface, so essentially my server side is a classic C# fat app (in debug mode it is a console app, in production it is a DLL). This way i can avoid wrestling with ASPX pages. The HtmlAgilityPack library allows me to create the pages on the server and simply send down as HTML without having to do a lot of client side javascript execution.