Strongly Typed Language to JavaScript

[Praveen Ramesh]

Hi,

I just started writing a lot of script code in JavaScript (accessing
browser DOM basically) and coming from the C#-VS.Net background, I
just hate it. There is no true class definition support and no
code-editor support for code-completion, not to mention debugging and
stuff.

Do you guys know of any good code-editor that might make my life
easier - with code completion support, etc.?

What would be much better is if I can write code in C# (with my class
definitions and stuff, and aginst a library that mimics the DOM types)
in VS.Net (with all the awesome editor support), compile it - to catch
all errors and then convert it to JavaScript! Is there some such C# to
JavaScript tool available? If not, wouldn't that be a good idea?

-Praveen

[Robert]

rp******@yahoo.com (Praveen Ramesh) wrote in message news:<4f*************************@posting.google.c om>...

Hi,

I just started writing a lot of script code in JavaScript (accessing
browser DOM basically) and coming from the C#-VS.Net background, I
just hate it. There is no true class definition support and no
code-editor support for code-completion, not to mention debugging and
stuff. What would be much better is if I can write code in C# (with my class
definitions and stuff, and aginst a library that mimics the DOM types)
in VS.Net (with all the awesome editor support), compile it - to catch
all errors and then convert it to JavaScript!

Most of the DOM is character data, so what would type checking find
anyway? Another way of looking at it is that Javascript avoids all
these problems by dynamic typing. I have programmed alot in langages
with dynamic typing and have not missed having to declare things. I
have almost come to the conclusion that declaring variables adds
another place for program errors. Getting rid of declarations gets rid
of a lot of errors.

Javascript default to a global declaration is bad and a source of
problems. Whould be nice if Javascript had some feature to force all
variables to be declared.

You may wish to try programming in Firefox. It has better error
messages and a DOM inspector.

You can do OO programming in Javascript.

Perhaps you need to learn more about Javascript. This is a good
reference:

javascript: Definitive Guide
by David Flanagan

[Robert]

rp******@yahoo.com (Praveen Ramesh) wrote in message

There is no true class definition support See the section on OOP in this link:

http://www.crockford.com/javascript/javascript.html
not to mention debugging and stuff.

A gecko based web browser like Firefox is a good browser under which
to write javascript. Firefox has:
-- the dom inspector
-- javascript consol
-- venkman debugger. See http://www.mozilla.org/projects/venkman/
-- error message having the correct line in error when you use
includes
Robert