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javascript shows no sign of dying since that talk, more people are doing desktop software (Electron) and more people using js to make native apps (React Native)
by ojr 10y ago
javascript shows no sign of dying since that talk, more people are doing desktop software (Electron) and more people using js to make native apps (React Native). Node.js is also popular on the server. Babel also took off which lessen the need for compile-to-js languages and makes the future of javascript into more javascript. Javascript is more ubiquitous than ever, wasm is best suited for hardware intensive applications and library authors, this is overkill for normal client side javascript
- acjohnson55 10y agoThose techs you mentioned are successful largely because they use Javascript as a runtime. Supposing those runtimes also eventually support WASM (with a good story of linking binaries), I see no reason why other languages won't begin to be used. Perhaps not for a few years though.