- Dynamic languages can’t be fast relative to static languages
- Any language with a working lambda can be saved from itself, given a fast enough runtime. But you can’t save the other folks who use that language
- You agree with me
- RDFa is smart technology, and can be cleanly integrated into HTML
- It was all invented in the 70′s
- Java-style static typing prevents me from doing dumb things in the small. This makes it awesome.
- You slow down as you get older, but it’s a learned response. You get there because you find caution useful. You stay there because you find caution comfortable
- Java-style classes prevent me from doing smart things in the large, or at least makes smart things harder to communicate. This makes it terrible.
- Dynamic languages can be more than fast enough.
- Your language is probably better than my language
- C++ made it all possible years ago, but nobody noticed because their compiler didn’t support it yet
- RDFa is doomed to inevitable, painful failure
- Making it common is more important than making it to start with
- Forging agreement is hard, sometimes impossible
- You violently disagree with most things I say
- The more things change, the more they change
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What’s All This Then?
I'm Alex Russell, a web developer working on Chrome, Chrome for Android, Chrome Frame, and the broader web platform at Google London. I'm guilty of many JavaScript transgressions. Through the Chrome team I serve in various standards-facing capacities, most-directly as a Google representative to ECMA TC39 (the standards body for JavaScript).
My goal is to make the web suck less and to the extent that I can keep politics and economics from creeping in, that's what this blog is about.
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Wait, I’m confused. Are you saying you agree with these heresies, or these are things that are the orthodox beliefs?
That’d be telling!
Why do I feel as if I’ve awoken into an episode of The Prisoner?
I am not a number, I am an undefined Object….
Ok, Alex…just watched the Chrome Frame Launch Video…You, sir, are a bad ass….