I was having issues with iterating over a “DOM element” with a for/of but it turns out they haven’t implemented that automatically yet
thanks anyway
I’m also pretty sure I had a dream where I was arguing with you that a for/of was fast enough to use in production
Ha. That's funny, since
for...of can't be used in production now, at least not without transpiling to ES5
well yeah, this is all assuming babel is a given
actually do you know offhand what it transpiles to?
I think babel/traceur implemented Iterator IIRC, which should just be the same while syntax you made us use
not a clue. It's probably best to stick to the "tried-and-true" for any sort of performance sensitive code though.
Are you using backbone for your super sekrit project?
I mean, it’s not really a secret
and you’ll probably hear a ton about it at IAML
I know, I was just teasing you for selling out to the corporate world. ;)
(Just kidding -- you have a job, I don't. You win.)
I haven’t got started that much on the client side, but I’m planning to stick with backbone/marionette for the time being unless they’re actually going to abandon it
what happened to the gig in Switzerland?
no gig yet
ah
who would abandon it?
I thought you’d mentioned Backbone was being abandoned
No
but then I saw someone was still active in commiting
okay
I don’t completely want to sell my soul to Google and use Angular
want to completely*
Angular is undergoing a rewrite into $INSERT_GOOGLES_LANGUAGE_OF_THE_DAY_HERE
that order
Dart / Typescript / Something
something that transpiles back to JS?
Yeah... ish
ah
lovely
Go
where?
jk
:rimshot:
:(
C++
For speed.
then to Emscripten for usability?
Yeah. So to get your webapps running you need to install a C compiler
why aren’t we just running everything in assembly
You could rewrite the performance-critical stuff in FORTRAN
pfft, who needs those javascript math symbol rendering libraries
everyone should just read raw fortran code
Whoa
"Introduction to iPads for stone table engravers."
*tablet
let's write a fortran to js compiler
:+1: SIMSSA needs that
It's (unfortunately) already been done.
Or fortunately, depending on your point of view
sorry to interrupt this wonderful conversation, but why did I think you could do something like
{} * 10 in python
to create an array of 10 empty dictionaries
list* whoops
Because that's an awful way to program?
there’s some language that supports that directly
found the actual, “pythonesque” or whatever they say way to do it
which is?
portions = [{} for _ in range(num_portions)]
Why are you pre-allocating these?
I’m initializing them with more stuff than an empty dictionary
it’d be easier to do objects but this is something I need to crank out fast and will not be incorporated into a production scenario
output is more important than process and reproducibility
/editability