Comments on: Move over Java, I have fallen in love with JavaScript

By: gmadar

gmadar — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 10:57:02 +0000

like any other solution. it has it’s good part and it’s bad parts. But hey – I love JavaScript

By: Krishna kumar

Krishna kumar — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 18:26:52 +0000

Totally agree , Ya it might to be…. i am with you make it 100% success.

JavaScript All The Way………..

By: Skilldrick » Why JavaScript is AWESOME

Skilldrick » Why JavaScript is AWESOME — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 08:32:57 +0000

[...] Move over Java, I have fallen in love with JavaScript: Miško Hevery usually writes great things about testing – here he talks about JavaScript, from the perspective of a Java programmer. [...]

By: Adios, Java! I hardly knew ye « Seeing things as they could be…

Adios, Java! I hardly knew ye « Seeing things as they could be… — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 19:19:58 +0000

[...] After some sincere reflection on how I spent my time building a little firewall logger/reporter, I realized that I’d spent way more time digging through Java documentation to get JSP calls working than I had designing or developing anything else. Java is a very complex programming language and I wonder if that complexity is often mistaken for powerfulness. Apparently, I’m not the only one who wondered. Misko Hevery wrote a treatise on this topic. [...]

By: jneira

jneira — Sun, 30 May 2010 10:25:49 +0000

soon you’ll be prepared for next step in functional paradigm progress : a lisp (clojure) or a ml (scala)

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Wed, 05 May 2010 22:51:34 +0000

[...] TDD expert leave Java and have fallen in love with [...]

By: misko

misko — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 15:49:25 +0000

For Unit tests I like JsTestDriver(http://code.google.com/p/js-test-driver/) + Jasmine (http://github.com/pivotal/jasmine) + JSTD Adapter(http://github.com/mhevery/jasmine-jstd-adapter)

For end to end tests Selenium is the standard: http://seleniumhq.org/

By: Esko Luontola

Esko Luontola — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 12:48:04 +0000

Which unit testing framework would you recommend for JavaScript? In one month I’ll be leading a project which needs a complex web UI, so now I’m reading “JavaScript: The Good Parts”. I don’t know what testing frameworks there are for JavaScript, although making one that suits my style would only be a couple of hundred lines (recently I wrote NanoSpec.go to bootstrap GoSpec, and it’s only a bit over 200 lines production code).

Are there some JavaScript testing frameworks for testing visuals? The system under test would draw some component, and the test would compare a screenshot of the component to the last known good value. Each new unique screenshot is validated manually by a user (does it satisfy a list of human-readable textual assertions), but on the following runs, if the visuals are not changed, the test will remember that it has been validated.

By: Timo Reitz

Timo Reitz — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 20:33:17 +0000

The first time I tried to post a comment, it did not appear. Maybe because JS was not activated? Would have been nice to warn me if that was the cause.

I disagree with your conclusion. I think this is not a dynamic-vs-static-typing case, it’s a matter of functions as first-class objects and a matter of explicit type typing instead of type inherence.

Just compare PHP and Haskell. The former is dynamic, but lacks functions as first-class objects (at least until 5.3) and it sucks, really (I programmed a lot with PHP lately, it is _not_ fun). The latter, Haskell, has static typing, but type inference, so you don’t have to write your types explicitely (at least not always, when I remember correctly). And it has the belovable functions as values.

Oh, I totally agree with you in this point: Object-oriented programming done right (and really right) has a lot in common with functional programming.

By: Josué

Josué — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 17:00:30 +0000

@misko

Thanks misko. I understand yous points and I think they are true. And I think you forget one. The time to compile.

Anyway, I still think that GWT pros in my context make worth use it. Of course YMMV.