{"id":1840,"date":"2008-12-08T15:17:24","date_gmt":"2008-12-08T19:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=1840"},"modified":"2016-07-07T09:49:20","modified_gmt":"2016-07-07T13:49:20","slug":"on-leaky-abstractions-and-objective-j","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/08\/on-leaky-abstractions-and-objective-j\/","title":{"rendered":"On Leaky Abstractions and Objective-J"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cappuccino.org\/discuss\/2008\/12\/08\/on-leaky-abstractions-and-objective-j\/\">Francisco Tolmasky<\/a>:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/cappuccino.org\/discuss\/2008\/12\/08\/on-leaky-abstractions-and-objective-j\/\">\r\n<p>Everybody is writing &ldquo;abstractions&rdquo; around JavaScript&#8230;I mean <strong>EVERYBODY<\/strong>, including Prototype, Dojo, and jQuery.  Yes, you read correctly, all the major JavaScript frameworks are essentially doing the same thing we are to some degree or another&#8212;we&#8217;re really not that original.  The sole difference between their approach and ours is that when they add new language features to JavaScript, they&#8217;re not taking the extra step of introducing <em>new syntax<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\r\n<p>He goes on to explain that they chose Objective-C syntax not because they were targeting Objective-C programmers but because they faced the same issues extending JavaScript that Stepstone faced 25 years ago <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?link_code=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;tag=michaeltsai-20&amp;creative=9325&amp;path=ASIN\/0201548348\">extending C<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Francisco Tolmasky: Everybody is writing &ldquo;abstractions&rdquo; around JavaScript&#8230;I mean EVERYBODY, including Prototype, Dojo, and jQuery. Yes, you read correctly, all the major JavaScript frameworks are essentially doing the same thing we are to some degree or another&#8212;we&#8217;re really not that original. The sole difference between their approach and ours is that when they add new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming-category"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15108,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840\/revisions\/15108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}