JavaScript 4 Pythonistas
Additional Information
As webapps do more in the client, there's growing interest in JavaScript in the Python world. There are 14 JavaScript related talks at this EuroPython , listed here.
JonathanFine thought it would be nice for all interested in JavaScript to meet in person and as a group, so he's set up a meeting as part of the main talks schedule. It's currently scheduled for Wednesday at 9.45am in the Library Theatre.
There was a similar meeting as part of EuroPython 2008 (in Vilnius) and it went well. There were about 20 of us, mostly divided into two groups, (1) those coming into JavaScript from Python, and (2) those for whom browser scripting has been for a long time their main activity.
Participants
If you're interested, perhaps put your name here, and tell us what interests you. Please think about what you'd like to get, and what you'd like to contribute.
JonathanFine
I'm giving a tutorial and a talk on JavaScript at this conference. Python is my main language. I want to make JavaScript easier to use, and for me the first steps are
- Improved documentation (similar in style to Python's)
Support for modules in JavaScript
A standard library for JavaScript
Here are the URLs for materials related to my tutorial and talk. I'm also interested in Python to JavaScript translation, but where the objects we use in Python have the special JavaScript semantics.
I'm particularly interested working with others to recode my Miller Columns gadget, but this time doing it right (right modules, right documentation, right standard library and right coding standards). I'd also like others to start using this gadget on their pages.
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