Re: Eu 4.0 Status
- Posted by Andy Jul 19, 2009
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2 problems with Euphoria:
It doesn't seem to be a good replacement for Javascript.
If you mean for use in a web browser, then you're right. Browsers have Javascript interpreters built-in. We just need to get Mozilla and Google and those other browser makers to include a Euphoria interpreter built-in and we'll be good to go. Maybe somebody could do a plug-in. 
I can't get Euphoria to work as a web language. Javascript at least works.
It is very easy, however, to use Javascript with a Euphoria web program. You just have to be familiar with both technologies. I've somewhat integrated Yahoo's YUI into BBCMF (for AJAX functionality). I haven't done much development in that direction recently because there's no demand. But if there were some motivation, it could be easily completed.
Make a high quality web program, don't need a desktop program. Make a desktop program with automated installation, don't need a web program.
That's been a question that's made me think as well. The benefit of writing a program for the browser (in Javascript) is your program can run on ANY platform that has a web browser with a Javascript interpreter (which is most if not all), including mobile devices like the iPhone. Javascript is not that difficult to use, but I'm not as familiar with it as I am with Euphoria. With desktop stuff, you can always have some kind of network access, but then you'd have to have programs for multiple platforms. And who has the time or money or desire to manage that?
Those replies still don't answer my question. I though we would see a beta release by summer, its almost the end of summer, and still no beta release. Just wondering, has there been a down turn in development, or are the developers just taking it easy, because its summer?
