He was off on one item for sure: good tools for Javascript OUTSIDE web development.
I am currently in the middle of a 100k(not all mine) LOC embbeded Javascript project consisting of multiple files and it is rough going.
Eclipse IDE for JavaScript Web Developers is the crutch I am currently using, it feels better than most commercial packages I tried(Aptana, Komodo, etc.), but that is not saying much.
What I want most is the ability to reliably zoom in and out of functions, but the indexing over multiple files is quite shoddy.
The bad habits Javascript encourages make for frustrating reading of code (like where did that foo.bar just come from, if bar was not a property in the initial declaration of foo). Not everybody reads Crockford...
Until Javascript is feasible on larger projects, it will not be general purpose NBL.
I am currently in the middle of a 100k(not all mine) LOC embbeded Javascript project consisting of multiple files and it is rough going.
Eclipse IDE for JavaScript Web Developers is the crutch I am currently using, it feels better than most commercial packages I tried(Aptana, Komodo, etc.), but that is not saying much.
What I want most is the ability to reliably zoom in and out of functions, but the indexing over multiple files is quite shoddy.
The bad habits Javascript encourages make for frustrating reading of code (like where did that foo.bar just come from, if bar was not a property in the initial declaration of foo). Not everybody reads Crockford...
Until Javascript is feasible on larger projects, it will not be general purpose NBL.