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I find it amusing that the stack I'm using to write a systems application is javascript all the way down, from the editor window to the terminal it runs in. (n
by 2bitencryption 10y ago
I find it amusing that the stack I'm using to write a systems application is javascript all the way down, from the editor window to the terminal it runs in.
(not bashing. just saying it's amusing. I freakin love VSC.)
- Analemma_ 10y agoThe future as foretold by "The Birth and Death of JavaScript" (https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death-of-javascript https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...) gets closer every day :)
- sdegutis 10y agoI honestly wouldn't be surprised if someone like MS announces a new open source "JS to efficient native machine code" compiler one of these days.
- mythz 10y agoMS Chakra JS VM is already open source: https://github.com/Microsoft/ChakraCore https://github.com/Microsoft/ChakraCore Like all high-performance JS VM's their JIT's already emit efficient machine code. If Google, Apple or MS could get JS running any faster they would've.
- biot 10y agoJavascript is the new turtle.
- paublyrne 10y agoI don't know what your comment means, but I'm intrigued by it. Which turtle are you talking about?
- GrayShade 10y agoI guess it's a reference to the "it's turtles all the way down" expression: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_way_down https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_way_down