Level: Introductory

Ted Neward

Director, Developer Relations

Smartsheet.com

In this session, we'll look at some of the leading candidates (CoffeeScript, Dart, Fantom, and more)and discuss whether the gain is worth the pain.

For a language which is so ubiquitous and powerful, there certainly are a lot of efforts under way to replace JavaScript as a language with something else (sometimes it feels like *anything* else) that "compiles" to JavaScript. In this session, we'll look at some of the leading candidates (CoffeeScript, Dart, Fantom, and maybe a few others, depends on what's been released that week), some of the fundamental "bad parts" of JavaScript, and how these candidates try to erase the "bad parts" of JavaScript under a different syntax and semantics. We'll talk about whether the gain is worth the pain, and when/where/why they're worth considering.