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> due to efforts of people who love the language Extremely tangential, but does anybody actually love javascript? We've been in a captive situation with this
by ilugaslifk 9y ago
> due to efforts of people who love the language
Extremely tangential, but does anybody actually love javascript? We've been in a captive situation with this deeply flawed hack for 20 years.
Once WebAssembly is mature enough to fulfill its promise, and after that once we've burned through the generation born into this JS captivity, is anyone going to want use it anymore?
Like, if it were magically possible to use anything else natively in the browser today, would the next big thing be another 10 million person-hours put into yet another angle on working around JS's flaws... or something in another less clunky language entirely, never to return?
- ravenstine 9y ago> Extremely tangential, but does anybody actually love javascript? I know that I do, and it's my language of choice. That's not to say that it wasn't deeply flawed for a long time, but now both the technology and standard practices have evolved to where I really enjoy writing it and using it.
- jbergens 9y agoI've been more curious if anybody actually loves Java. Ok Java 8 seems to be fine but do people really love it? And did they also love Java 7?