JavaScript is just an assembly language

Folytatom a Java, AJAX és a Google Web Toolkit történetet, ami ugye azt jelenti hogy kliens oldali java scriptet generál java kódból amihez van GWT-Ext vagyis komplett RIA a cucc.

Erre ezt olvasom, a Microsoft is lelopja a technológiát ->

December 5th, 2007
Microsoft creates GWT clone

While the GWT conference was going on in San Francisco, Microsoft announced its own take on the concept: Volta. GWT compiles Java source code into Javascript, and now Volta does the same thing for C# and other .NET languages. “JavaScript is just an assembly language,” says Live Labs product manager Alex Daley.

De ami érdekes az az amit a Microsoft szakértő mondott a Volta kapcsán hogy, a javascript olyan alacsony szintű eszköz/nyelv mint az assembler. Vagyis a végső/legalacsonyabb szintű végrehajtó nyelv a browser -> a web application számára.

Megjelent a GWT 1.5 candidate, ahol a Google meg azt írja, hogy lehet jó vagy gyors javascriptet írni ->

New compiler optimizations increase performance:

With this release of GWT, we're happy to announce that our compiler produces faster code than you would write by hand! How's that? A bunch of new compiler optimizations allow us to efficiently inline method calls, even through many layers of indirection. Translation: all the nice abstractions and clean design work that are essential to maintaining a large code base melt away in the compiler's output, giving your users the fastest possible experience. By contrast, if you were writing JavaScript by hand, you'd have to choose between writing good code and writing fast code — and when your application got to a certain size, maintainability would make the second choice impossible. With GWT 1.5, you don't have to compromise; just write good code and let the compiler make it fast.

Ezek után azt hiszem jó lesz javaból dolgozni tovább. És persze van GWT Designer is.

És hogyan nyerte meg csendben a háborút a JS :)

Programming the World in a Browser, Real Men Don't Do JavaScript Do They? !

1 AND THE WINNER IS JavaScript

The mainstream professional developer community has never taken JavaScript seriously but soon they will have no choice. JavaScript is ready to move to center stage as the development and delivery technology for Web 2.x applications. In the past, most enterprise and product developers flocked to Java or C# while web developers moved to PHP, Perl, Python and more recently Ruby, with most ignoring the web based scripting language called JavaScript.