November 25, 2006

Is Java bad? Ask Ajaxian…

Christian Decker wrote this at around evening time:
Ajaxian has once again a new Post about a new Library, this time a URL Parser. All nice and shiny but it isn’t the library I want to write about, it’s the finishing comment they put in there:
This smells like a Java group writing JavaScript to me with the camelCase and thus p.getUsername() instead of p.username.
Why should it be negative to immitate Java? I’m a Java-Programmer myself and I try to use as much as I can from my experience when writing Ajax applications. I think the Ajax community could learn a lot from the Java style of doing things instead of being so snobbish…

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5 Responses to “Is Java bad? Ask Ajaxian…”

  1. Mark Says:
    November 26th, 2006 at 00:12:02
    I was also somewhat irritated by that comment. I really enjoy going to Ajaxian every day to see what’s new, but I was a little frustrated to see such a clear bias against Java.

    Personally — I’d have to do some research to back this up — I think that much of JavaScript’s rise to power (and web 2.0 in general) in the last year or two has had much to do with the development of superb APIs. After all, not much has changed on the browser-side. Java developers probably understand better than most how to create well-written & documented APIs.

    For example, look at Jack Slocum’s incredible YUI-EXT library. It is clearly influenced by Java idioms, as he is also a Java developer.

  2. Christian Decker Says:
    November 26th, 2006 at 12:03:48
    Hm, looks like some people don’t like criticism…
    It wasn’t my goal to upset anyone, just put things right, that Java isn’t bad, and Ajax isn’t always good…
  3. Thomas Says:
    November 26th, 2006 at 18:10:37
    Hmmmm… I think superb APIs can’t be attributed to Java. A lot of good stuff has come out from people who use Ruby, Python, Java, and probably a number of other languages too. I’m not sure the Ajaxian folks are trying to say Java is bad, just maybe point out that replicating everything you do in one language in another may not be the best way to go about things. I like Java, but I like languages with a looser syntax. THey both have their uses I guess.
  4. RStankov Says:
    November 28th, 2006 at 21:38:11
    I think that Java developers can learn from JavaScript developer, as well as JavaScript developers can learn from Java. And the style of cooding depends of the task, the situaton, and the developer him self. And almost every JavaScript developer have started from some other language.
    p.s. lets don’t forget that every language have its unique abilities whitch the other language don’t have.
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