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PHP: a fractal of bad design (fuzzy notepad)

PHP: a fractal of bad design (fuzzy notepad)

Posted Apr 17, 2012 16:33 UTC (Tue) by HelloWorld (guest, #56129)
In reply to: PHP: a fractal of bad design (fuzzy notepad) by k8to
Parent article: PHP: a fractal of bad design (fuzzy notepad)

> though we can hope for salvation from Dart.
Yeah right, a language with explicit typing, the null problem and an unsound type system. Dart is broken, and unlike JavaScript, it's not even widely supported.

If you actually want a sensible language for web development, try js_of_ocaml.


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PHP: a fractal of bad design (fuzzy notepad)

Posted Apr 17, 2012 17:35 UTC (Tue) by k8to (subscriber, #15413) [Link]

Sorry if it wasn't obvious; it was meant as dark humor.

PHP: a fractal of bad design (fuzzy notepad)

Posted Apr 17, 2012 18:11 UTC (Tue) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]

I'm actually looking at Kotlin right now. It supports compilation into JavaScript and it's fairly OK as languages go.

BTW, it has explicit nullable types.

PHP: a fractal of bad design (fuzzy notepad)

Posted Apr 17, 2012 19:13 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Why did I not know about js_of_ocaml before now? Talk about concentrated awesome. (There must be some catch.)

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