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Half and half. Yes JS is a chore to keep up with because everyone can just push crap online willy nilly. But the uptick in other languages is likely more beca
by digi_owl 9y ago
Half and half.
Yes JS is a chore to keep up with because everyone can just push crap online willy nilly.
But the uptick in other languages is likely more because they are new and therefore there they have a virgin land advantage. Thus everyone and their dog jumps in to play with and stake their claim on fame and fortune.
Soon enough those languages will again be bogged down in half measures and fallen behind code.
This because while developers wants to play with new ideas and new code, users value stability and predictability.
- jack9 9y ago> But the uptick in other languages is likely more because they are new and therefore there they have a virgin land advantage. That is incorrect. The languages in production that interact with javascript, might be a better way to think about it. They are all generally older than javascript (as opposed to dead, like ALGOL). The MS ecosystems and Java might have a bogged down problem in the future, but when even Lua is updated more frequently than JS, you might want to question the wisdom of the current processes.