The project's GitHub repo[1] does a much better effort of selling it:
When compared to JavaScript, Move has the following key features:
- Simpler. E.g. there's only one way to declare functions, no need for var declarations, only a single type of equality operators and no need for terminating statements with semicolons.
- Less boiler-plate code needed. Move introduces a few carefully selected features like the "import" and "export" keywords, and @-shorthand for this access.
- Move runs in any >=ES3 JavaScript runtime and thus can be used as a universal programming language for everything from running in web browsers to powering complex offline systems.
Also, interestingly, it's from the guy behind Kod and Spotify's design.
When compared to JavaScript, Move has the following key features:
- Simpler. E.g. there's only one way to declare functions, no need for var declarations, only a single type of equality operators and no need for terminating statements with semicolons.
- Less boiler-plate code needed. Move introduces a few carefully selected features like the "import" and "export" keywords, and @-shorthand for this access.
- Move runs in any >=ES3 JavaScript runtime and thus can be used as a universal programming language for everything from running in web browsers to powering complex offline systems.
Also, interestingly, it's from the guy behind Kod and Spotify's design.
[1] https://github.com/rsms/move