Jan Aleman is CEO of Servoy, a company that sells a Java-based development and deployment platform. Although Java-based, the main scripting language in the tool is JavaScript. He started writing JavaScript-based applications back in 1996 (Netscape server) and hated it – mainly due to its buggy implementation (many memory leaks), lack of documentation and the fact that it was very hard to debug. After many years, his issues are now all addressed by modern environments, making his choice for JavaScript a complete no-brainer.
In this article we'll look at using scripting tools and languages in business
applications. I am a big proponent of using scripting languages. Personally I
use JavaScript very often: Why? Because it's fast, flexible and sexy.
Technically, when I refer to JavaScript I actually mean ECMAScript, but I'll
call it JavaScript in this article as it sounds sexier than the official
standard ECMAScript.
Fast
There are a couple of aspects to a language being "fast" - there is fast to
learn, fast to code, fast to fix, and fast to run. Because JavaScript is a
relatively simple language, it's very easy to learn. In fact, most developers
have already used it in one of the many environments that are already
JavaScript based - obviously the web-browser - but also products from large
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Jan Aleman is CEO of Servoy, a company that sells a Java-based development and deployment platform. Although Java-based, the main scripting language in the tool is JavaScript. He started writing JavaScript-based applications back in 1996 (Netscape server) and hated it – mainly due to its buggy implementation (many memory leaks), lack of documentation and the fact that it was very hard to debug. After many years, his issues are now all addressed by modern environments, making his choice for JavaScript a complete no-brainer.
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