I think you take the wrong tack on a badly formulated sentence. Consider, the rest of the "Ask HN"-article compares with Ruby and discusses mostly the effect of trading development speed for execution speed.
So do you have references about the development speed of Javascript [edit: for competent programmers]? As compared to Java and the usual scripting languages like Ruby, Perl etc.
(I am asking; I don't really know. [Edit: To be really really clear -- I ask because I am surprised by the claim. Javascript seems like a simplified scripting language.])
So do you have references about the development speed of Javascript [edit: for competent programmers]? As compared to Java and the usual scripting languages like Ruby, Perl etc.
(I am asking; I don't really know. [Edit: To be really really clear -- I ask because I am surprised by the claim. Javascript seems like a simplified scripting language.])