{"id":628,"date":"2007-02-12T13:23:18","date_gmt":"2007-02-12T18:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/2007\/02\/12\/javascript-the-web-20-developers-babelfish\/"},"modified":"2007-02-12T13:23:59","modified_gmt":"2007-02-12T18:23:59","slug":"javascript-the-web-20-developers-babelfish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/2007\/02\/12\/javascript-the-web-20-developers-babelfish\/","title":{"rendered":"Javascript &#8211; the Web 2.0 developer&#8217;s Babelfish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the post-demo schmooze at <a href=\"http:\/\/barcamp.org\/DemoCampToronto12\">Toronto DemoCamp 12<\/a> last week,  I was discussing Ajax-y things with a few people and I found myself articulating a notion that has been rolling around in my head unformed for a while &#8211; that of Javascript as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Babel_fish\">Babelfish<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you look some of the popular Javascript libraries and frameworks, an important aspect of their design is to make one&#8217;s Javascript code feel more like another environment that better suits the application or in which the designer (and ultimately user)  is fluent.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"prototype\">prototype <\/a>=> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ruby-lang.org\">Ruby<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mochikit.com\/\">mochikit <\/a>=> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.python.org\/\">Python<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/jquery.com\/\">JQuery <\/a>=> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/xpath\">XPath<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/code.google.com\/webtoolkit\/\">GWT<\/a> => <a href=\"http:\/\/www.java.com\">Java<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To be precise, GWT is actually written in Java, so it doesn&#8217;t fit exactly but continues to demonstrate the trend of people wanting to stay in the environment they understand but have Javascript do the work.<\/p>\n<p>Javascript is remarkable in its flexibility of expression that allows you to apply it to various idiomatic styles.  I can&#8217;t think of another language that would be quite so accomodating.<\/p>\n<p>Is this trend indicative of Javascript&#8217;s power, or the ingenuity of developers who are stuck with using Javascript in the browser when it differs from their environment of choice?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the post-demo schmooze at Toronto DemoCamp 12 last week, I was discussing Ajax-y things with a few people and I found myself articulating a notion that has been rolling around in my head unformed for a while &#8211; that of Javascript as Babelfish. If you look some of the popular Javascript libraries and frameworks, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6,1,5,12,11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ajax","category-barcamp","category-blather","category-democamp","category-development","category-javascript","category-torcamp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}