On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 5:36 PM, Clifford Ilkay <clifford_ilkay@dinamis.com> wrote:
I hear you! I'm learning Javascript and wondering, "How did this language become so ubiquitous? Why doesn't Python run in browsers? It's a great language for embeddable scripting."
The industry seems to like converters (i.e. GWT, Pygamas, etc.) and not replacing JavaScript with projects like IronMonkey. Which is kind of interesting considering there is a huge user base of Python programmers who are coding on top of Microsoft's Excel (instead of having to use VB.NET and C#). CoffeeScript has a Python like syntax (I'm loosely using the word 'like') if you are interested in not having to write JavaScript. But it compiles CoffeeScript into JavaScript so it's not the best thing in the world.