Why doesn't the ASP.NET Web Matrix support JScript? It supports everything else, C#, J# and Visual Basic but why not JScript. I would very much like this in a future release, if any.
I can only assume most people requested J# be supported. JScript isn't very wildly used, at least to my knowledge (hence the reasoning behind not having a forum here) and as a result, they probably felt designing for it would be not worth the payoff.
I don't know, but VS.net doesn't even support JScript. I think JScript was one of those things that was supported for upgrade purposes from old ASP code IMHO. I really don't get the JScript thing, because why take the time to learn JScript when you could just
learn C# in the same time.
The only reasonable usage I found was the one described in the featured article of last Saturday (Using JScript.NET And Eval For Dynamic Execution From C#).
I think JScript is not used because it isn't supported by VS and WebMatrix. I'm not a programming tools person but I can imagine that there are issues with the "prototype inheritance" of JScript that make this hard. I think the prototype inheritance is a powerful
mechanism but it is very different from the strongly typed ideas in C# and VB.NET. I have found evaluation of JScript fills a gap in the abilities of the "main two" .NET languages.
I beleive it has to do more with economics than actual problems with the technology. It costs a lot of money to put an IDE together to use. And for a language that doesn't get used much at all, and is more like a transition language like that of J#, it didn't
make sense to create an IDE for JScript, too much money and not enough people using it.
If anyone has an indication of what it takes to put together the language editing support I'd like to hear. On the "not many users" issue I think we are looking at chicken and egg. If JScript.NET had full support when .NET was launched I'd expect it to have
a fairly large following by now. At this stage I think full support would maybe convert a few users (who wanted to use it anyway), be useful for certain types of assembly for all users (stuff where VB.NET and C# are not suited) and also recruit some JavaScript
programmers to the .NET fold. (If the cost were low and there was a "port a language fully to VS.NET" toolkit, there might be a few more .NET languages launched. Is ther such a "kit"?)
Besides the economical issues, you need to know if people are going to use the language support in your IDE. If a minority (not really suited for) language was introduced into ASP.NET (lets say CFML), then I doubt the majority who would use C# or VB.NET, would
use CFML. But I agree with your chicken and egg notion, if JScript.NET did get more support, then I would guess alot more people would use it. I'm a fan of JScript.NET as strict conformance to common OOP techniques and a C++ dialiact is eliminated in it, such
as variables that dont need a proper type, or function statements done need to be inside a function. I found it a very easy and useful language to begin with and only use another language for projects that requires languages that support other features I need.
Quotes: >>if JScript.NET did get more support, then I would guess alot more people would use it. >>I can only assume most people requested J# be supported.
Sooo.. where do we, JScript.NET enthusiasts, show our support for language inclusion in WebMatrix && VS.NET ? I hope MS isn't letting their best programming language yet slowly die
One approach you could adopt is to create a few applications where JScript.NET has major advantages over the "big two". (Maybe something that builds and evaluates code on the fly.) Development will need to be with a text editor or PrimalCODE or whatever. (There
are also some approaches being developed with CodeDOM etc. that might help in such a venture. No ICodeParser implementations yet, as far as I'm aware!) Publish in a widely read place. Start a dedicated campaign. It might be slow but has a chance.
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Sooo.. where do we, JScript.NET enthusiasts, show our support for language inclusion in WebMatrix && VS.NET ? I hope MS isn't letting their best programming language yet slowly die
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