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Let's hope WebAssembly will help to relegate JavaScript to obsolescence and allow a productive and safe language to gain momentum. I also hope WebAssembly will
by cm3 11y ago
Let's hope WebAssembly will help to relegate JavaScript to obsolescence and allow a productive and safe language to gain momentum. I also hope WebAssembly will solve the debugging (no DWARF) story universally.
Web browsers are one of the most popular attack vectors and hence would benefit from an APL-like rigid language profile for web applications. JavaScript is too imprecise and bug prone for anyone to use.
- oblio 11y agoJavascript is evolving and it also has probably the largest number of developers in the world (both those working on JS VMs/tools and JS users). Given that there are Cobol users still out there, it's entirely likely that JS will outlive both of us and maybe even our species :) Plus JS is one profile away from becoming a very sound language. And it's not like it hasn't moved that way already (strict mode).