On Jul 24, 6:03 pm, David Nolen <dnolen.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > As a professional JavaScripter for the past 6 years who has built his own > frameworks and written considerable amounts of Prototype, MooTools, and > jQuery. > > I don't think jQuery is special or particularly interesting and most of the > libraries around it are terrible IMO. It certainly doesn't help in building > sophisticated clientside applications (if it did, why Backbone.js, why > Cappuccino, why SproutCore?, etc). > > For simple stuff it's fine. But then so is Google Closure. > > I think the Clojure community can do much, much better. In fact a clientside > framework could be the first Clojure killer app ... > > David >
I was hoping that clojure itself would help jquery build sophisticated applications, by bringing proper functional programming to the clientside, rather than bringing Java's OOP in the form of gClosure. The Javascript notaries have advocated using a small functional subset of javascript, rather than the full gamut of javscript's quirks, and I was saddened while watching the Rich Hickey talk when he said that clojurescript would abstract away the complex conventions and discipline required when writing apps for gClosure by producing code ready for its optimizing compiler, when it could've simply enforced that small functional subset of javascript itself (sans gClosure) that's now considered idiomatic best practice. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
