new Date(“wtf”) How well do you know JavaScript’s Date class? JavaScript is a crazy, mad language. Or better, it’s library is crazy. You can mostly blame automatic convertions
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Javascript, Mood
Fat, obese npm
I do understand that today designs tend to put less emphasis on conservative memory usage but that’s pretty outrageous. A simple search into node’s package manager ate one gigabyte and half of main memory having to deal with a simple question like npm find foobar more speficically GNU time told me that it took 48…
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JavaScript+OtherLanguages
Those slides JavaScript + Other Languages are really useful to implement an eventual Eiffel to JavaScript compiler.
Well, actually it should be called transcompiler….
We could just feed the C files made by current Liberty compiler but it seems to me that passing throught C which is a procedural language like C could easily makes things quite beefier as an Eiffel compiler usually translate all the nifty niceries of Eiffel into low-level C code which could be quite cryptic.