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> that in the not too distant future it's just going to be the programming language. Being a programmer will be synonymous with writing JavaScript. chortle No
by s_kilk 11y ago
> that in the not too distant future it's just going to be the programming language. Being a programmer will be synonymous with writing JavaScript.
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Not so long ago they were saying the same about Ruby, and Java before that, and so on down a long and winding history of ludicrous one-language-swallows-the-world predictions.
- Touche 11y ago> Not so long ago they were saying the same about Ruby, and Java before that, and so on down a long and winding history of ludicrous one-language-swallows-the-world predictions. In this case it's not so much a prediction as an observation of what has already been happening.
- noir_lord 11y agoThere is a language that has largely taken over the "not compiled" segment but it's not JavaScript it's python. It's everywhere at this point.
- Touche 11y agoIt's not in my browser. It's not in Nginx. It's not not in my database (Couch). JavaScript is.
- s_kilk 11y agoIt might be hard to believe, but the browser is not the be-all and end-all of software. I'm starting to think theres a JS Bubble forming, inside which people who only ever touch JS and nothing else proclaim that the world and the moon are made entirely of JavaScript.