The way the web was intended and should have stayed ;)

The way the web was intended and should have stayed ;)

implying the web wasn't meant for trying to cross-compile largish apps initially written in C++ or Java into JavaScript and forcing them down to end-users? where they can enjoy downloading a big chunk of code embedded in HTML files, slow start-up times, and often generally questionable performance?...

then again, it could get better...

ES6 is proposing adding support for static types and class/instance objects (*1).

probably at least someone will improvise use of ZIP-based containers or similar.

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*1: though with slightly different syntax than AS3, and a different and still slightly unorthodox set of type names ('float64', 'uint8', ...).

they apparently allow things like "public x:int32;" vs, say, "public var x:int32;". I am at least half-tempted to steal this:

modifier+identifier [ : type ] [ = expression ] ; //actually: "modifier+varlist ;", either way...

modifier+identifier (argslist) [ : type ] methodbody

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