It's the last point on the feature list page, but it's very telling that it's the first thing on the "Create New" screen.

https://support.google.com/webdesigner/answer/3261498?hl=en&...

See, Javascript maybe a 'bad' language according to many of you, but it has massive adoption unlike other languages. These board creators just want to ease the path for most web developers to become hardware developers. It not only opens up a whole new industry to work with, but also it creates a good 'filter' to filter out the bad ones. I will explain.

The thing about hardware products is that most people dont care about internals. Most of them care about the experience. I am NOT an Apple fanboy, but in this occasion I would like to cite the iPhone's sales as a good example. If you suck at programming in Javascript, it will show up, especially in the Hardware world, easily, and you/your product will be rejected.

Also, when you develop, say, a DSLR Quadcopter[1] with this board, people aren't going to ask you "What language is it running on?", "How slow is your language?". People are going to be asking about the footage you're going to film with it. Let's not dissolve ourselves into the hatred of a language. Instead, let's take the time to appreciate what these developers have achieved and what we can build out of these boards.

Cheers.

[1]A sample DSLR quadcopter for reference: http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6225/6868828438_e6d798c68d_b.j...

His friend died and all of his accounts went silent along with some grieving notes.

Then, a few months later, the deceased's account was compromised by a spammer. Posts from a spammer posing as a dead friend is about the worst kind of spam I can imagine.

I would easily pay $20 for Dark Sky, or Moves, or FitnessFast, InstaPaper, even ExitStrategy -- but I would never pay $20 upfront. It takes a couple weeks using an app to see if it turns into an invaluable daily tool, or if you just delete it. (Which is why free software trials for desktop apps have existed for decades.)

I refuse to pay $1 or $2 for apps just to try them out, not because of the money, but because of the moral issue -- I don't want to be rewarding crappy spammy developers with their $1 or $2 just as much as the truly good app developers out there, because that's just contributing to the problem.

Marco Ament took down the Instapaper Free version. But I never would have downloaded the paid version if I hadn't been able to try the free version first.

It spit this out:

https://gist.github.com/JacksonGariety/6766626

(after struggling and realizing CMD+S wasn't saving my file)

I feel sorry for whoever was tasked with making this application.

Lua has by far the smallest, most portable, easy-to-integrate runtime of any embeddable language I am aware of. JavaScript has good implementations (V8, etc) but they are orders of magnitude larger, more complex, and imposing if you're linking them into your binary.

If this is truly a robust JS implementation, this means that there is now a tiny, easy-to-embed implementation of the programming language that powers the web. This could enable JavaScript to start making inroads in the "embedded language" space, and really become the language of both client and server.

If it can compile to LuaJIT bytecode also, it could also possibly be competitive in speed with other JS implementations, though some of that would depend on how efficient the resulting bytecode can be.

I think this would actually be a cool trend. Having a code-base that can run either in the browser or "natively" is a powerful approach. Though Lua is a cleaner language, JavaScript is a totally decent language if you use it right -- much better than a lot of people give it credit for. Hint: if you think JS sucks because of browser incompatibilities, what you really hate is bad implementations of the language, not the language itself.

Of course another approach to achieve "one language" would be to have a Lua->JS compiler (or Lua->asm.js, or a Lua interpreter in asm.js). But Lua the language is a bit more of a moving target; to preserve cleanliness and orthogonality they sometimes break the language in non-backward-compatible ways.

I'd argue the opposite, no? The 100-year-storm of destruction that we, as Player 1, unleash upon the poor Liberty City automotive world would probably make any insurance company run screaming and crying in the opposite direction of profitability.

"We had HOW MANY claims yesterday afternoon??"

:)

http://tumult.com/hype/