- 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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I'm Alex Russell, a web developer working on Chrome, Chrome Frame, and the broader web platform at Google. I'm guilty of many JavaScript transgressions.
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….