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I'm surprised at how many of the answers here are rationalizing JavaScript's monopoly, saying that it's a fine language / it's optimized / stop complaining / et
by troymc 10y ago
I'm surprised at how many of the answers here are rationalizing JavaScript's monopoly, saying that it's a fine language / it's optimized / stop complaining / etc.
That seems like the programming-language equivalent of Stockholm syndrome, i.e. "We're stuck with X, so we should justify and defend X as a coping mechanism."
The question you should consider isn't, "Is JavaScript a good language?"
The question you should consider is, "Is JavaScript's monopoly good for the web platform?"
- inostia 10y agoThe same could be said for HTML.
- bobbytherobot 10y agoAnd CSS
- psyc 10y agoAnd FORTRAN.
- pwdisswordfish 10y agoAnd my axe!
- mistersys 10y agoReddit is leaking
- hasenj 10y agoAdjusting to reality is a good thing. Expecting reality too adjust to your personal whims and desires is kind of messed up. I don't see anyone defending JavaScript as if it had no flaws. So I'm not sure what your getting at exactly.
- coldtea 10y ago>Expecting reality too adjust to your personal whims and desires is kind of messed up. Man made things, like programming environment and the web, are not some immovable physical reality. And when it comes to man-made "realities", Rosa Parks probably has one of two things to say about wanting to adjust them being "messed up".
- hasenj 10y agoIf you want to dedicate your life in advocacy for JavaScript replacement, go ahead, but I think that would not be a wise decision for one to make.
- troymc 10y ago"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." - George Bernard Shaw
- Bahamut 10y agoI'm not sure even that question is a good one to consider - I think the market already has shown what happens when attempts to move off JavaScript happens with Google and Dart. The various other browser vendors didn't bite, and the industry as a whole remained with JS. IMO the best question we have given the realities is "what can we do to make JS workable?"