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Javascript speed

Javascript speed

Posted Sep 3, 2008 19:00 UTC (Wed) by tjc (guest, #137)
In reply to: Javascript speed by gouyou
Parent article: The Google Chrome comic book

It could be a *lot* worse. As a Python programmer you should at least appreciate the fact that semicolon statement terminators are optional.

Myself, I like the first-class funtions, and the somewhat oddball prototype-based objects. I'm less thrilled with the way it silently converts objects from one type to another, in sometimes unexpected ways, but most scripting languages do this to some extent.


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