typed browser scripting languages?

Scalads, lasses and Lifted,

Does anyone know of efforts to create a typed functional equivalent to JavaScript? The current situation with the momentum to use third party components with no ability to catch interaction between components at compile time means that you are flying completely blind when you use third party code. This really weakens the value prop of providers like jQuery -- especially jQuery as it has no dependency management, either.

i know of one group that compiles OCaml to JavaScript (for a mobile platform). Are there other efforts people know about?

Best wishes,

--greg

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On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Meredith Gregory <lgreg.meredith@gmail.com> wrote:

Scalads, lasses and Lifted,

Does anyone know of efforts to create a typed functional equivalent to JavaScript? The current situation with the momentum to use third party components with no ability to catch interaction between components at compile time means that you are flying completely blind when you use third party code. This really weakens the value prop of providers like jQuery -- especially jQuery as it has no dependency management, either.

i know of one group that compiles OCaml to JavaScript (for a mobile platform). Are there other efforts people know about?

Best wishes,

--greg

--
L.G. Meredith
Managing Partner
Biosimilarity LLC
806 55th St NE
Seattle, WA 98105

+1 206.650.3740

http://biosimilarity.blogspot.com

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