<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>It would be very interesting to compare Smee perf to this new generation. I'm also thinking that the hidden class strategy could be applied to Smee to make it incredibly fast. I'm not sure how this helps, but it is very interesting...<br><br>On Sep 5, 2008, at 3:38 PM, "Stephen Pair" <<a href="mailto:stephen@pairhome.net">stephen@pairhome.net</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 4:04 PM, Avi Bryant <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:avi@dabbledb.com"><a href="mailto:avi@dabbledb.com">avi@dabbledb.com</a></a>></span> wrote:<br><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">One interesting (if odd) just-released language that targets<br></div>
JavaScript is Objective-J: <a href="http://cappuccino.org/" target="_blank"><a href="http://cappuccino.org/">http://cappuccino.org/</a></a> . It's a near clone<br>
of Objective-C (only without the C), that compiles to JavaScript on<br>
the fly in the browser. </blockquote><div><br></div><div>What is the point of Objective-J? I looked into it a while back and didn't get it. The only advantage I could imagine was being able to take some Objective-C code and readily port it to Objective-J. And perhaps the familiarity of the syntax to people that already know Objective-C is worth something. But, in most respects, Objective-C is inferior to Javascript as far as I can tell (for example Objective-C lacks closures).</div>
<div><br></div><div>- Stephen</div></div></div>
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