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JavaScript didn't "conquer" anything. It was just one of the first languages around when the web was still in its infancy, and simply never went away.

by ndepoel 10y ago

zeppelin101 10y ago
Javascript became far more significant than what it used to be. We can largely thank Microsoft (AJAX) and Google (V8) for that.
- jdhawk 10y ago
  And Sun, for being assholes about Java.
r00fus 10y ago
Lets be honest here, Javascript (alternately known as ECMAscript [1]) has done the following: a) progressively adopted new language features like prototypes, closures, generics and the like. Javascript just being there early wasn't enough. I has improved remarkably over the past 20 years, and the ECMA standards body has been critical to that improvement. That said, it's still a quirky language and that alone makes a lot of people feel they can't rely on it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECMAScript https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECMAScript
- zeveb 10y ago
  > Lets be honest here, Javascript (alternately known as ECMAscript [1]) has done the following: a) progressively adopted new language features like prototypes, closures, generics and the like. JavaScript had prototypes and closures from the beginning, no? Does it really have generics — a quick Googling makes it appear that it's a matter of hand-rolling. But it's been awhile since I've written JavaScript in anger, so perhaps I've missed an announcement since then.
halayli 10y ago
You're in denial. Javascript is everywhere nowadays. It has become the English of languages. It's not my favorite language but it has improved extensively. No one wants to maintain a web app, mobile app, and desktop app separately.
- dragonwriter 10y ago
  > It has become the English of languages. I'm pretty sure English is still the English of languages. JavaScript might be the English of programming languages, though.
  - halayli 10y ago
    It doesn't need a lot of thinking that I was referring to programming languages.
  - Practicality 10y ago
    You win the pedantic award for today. :)
- goatlover 10y ago
  Sun was making the same sort of promises with Java about write once, run anywhere, because nobody wanted to have to write their application multiple times to target different platforms.

JavaScript didn't "conquer" anything. It was just one of the first languages around when the web was still in its infancy, and simply never went away.

by ndepoel 10y ago

JavaScript didn't "conquer" anything. It was just one of the first languages around when the web was still in its infancy, and simply never went away.

zeppelin101 10y ago

Javascript became far more significant than what it used to be. We can largely thank Microsoft (AJAX) and Google (V8) for that.

jdhawk 10y ago
And Sun, for being assholes about Java.

r00fus 10y ago

Lets be honest here, Javascript (alternately known as ECMAscript [1]) has done the following: a) progressively adopted new language features like prototypes, closures, generics and the like. Javascript just being there early wasn't enough. I has improved remarkably over the past 20 years, and the ECMA standards body has been critical to that improvement. That said, it's still a quirky language and that alone makes a lot of people feel they can't rely on it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECMAScript https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECMAScript

zeveb 10y ago
> Lets be honest here, Javascript (alternately known as ECMAscript [1]) has done the following: a) progressively adopted new language features like prototypes, closures, generics and the like. JavaScript had prototypes and closures from the beginning, no? Does it really have generics — a quick Googling makes it appear that it's a matter of hand-rolling. But it's been awhile since I've written JavaScript in anger, so perhaps I've missed an announcement since then.

halayli 10y ago

You're in denial. Javascript is everywhere nowadays. It has become the English of languages. It's not my favorite language but it has improved extensively. No one wants to maintain a web app, mobile app, and desktop app separately.

dragonwriter 10y ago
> It has become the English of languages. I'm pretty sure English is still the English of languages. JavaScript might be the English of programming languages, though.
- halayli 10y ago
  It doesn't need a lot of thinking that I was referring to programming languages.
- Practicality 10y ago
  You win the pedantic award for today. :)
goatlover 10y ago
Sun was making the same sort of promises with Java about write once, run anywhere, because nobody wanted to have to write their application multiple times to target different platforms.