Unlike Steve Job's statement about ActionScript, Adobe's statement about JavaScr... | Hacker News

HN2new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit

		cft on June 14, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: JavaScript is not suitable for large web apps Unlike Steve Job's statement about ActionScript, Adobe's statement about JavaScript will not change the web landscape. Look at Google Docs for example!

tonyarkles on June 15, 2012 [–]

I don't know the answer to this question, but it's worth posing: Is Google Docs written directly in JS? Or is it compiled down from, say, GWT?

cft on June 15, 2012 | [–]

Google Docs are written using Google Closure JavaScript library, not Java/GWT

Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact