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From Java to Javascript

In this article I want to share my experiences trying to get started with language engineering on the web while coming from Java. Although I was trying to do language engineering, I think this article can be useful to any programmer who wants to enter the world of Javascript and the Web platform.

From the JVM to the Web

I think the main problem that I had approaching the web was not considering it as a platform on the same level of the JVM. I thought of it like just adding some Javascript to a web page to have the UI for my powerful backend. However, the web has gone a long way from the simple scripts people were doing 20 years ago. It is now a platform in its own right and it needs a lot of tooling to make the amazing things it does.

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Interoperability of web-based modeling tools

While doing some research on web-based tool, I recently found this excellent article by the team at EclipseSource. I like the way they present the differences between web and desktop-based tools focusing on the following axes:

  • Installability
  • Portability
  • Performance and responsiveness
  • Usability
  • Cost

I recently started studying these web-based tools to implement some personal projects and I found that there is another dimension worth mentioning: interoperability. As they note, both technologies have their pros and cons in each axis, but in the axis of interoperability, web technology are just on a league of their own.

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