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Seems kind of silly to compare client-side Javascript to languages that have no client-side solution.

• mosselman 9y ago
  That might be more of a chicken-egg situation. One might argue that you could take even a hundredth of the effort that has been put into Javascript and put it towards an alternative and you'd come a long way. Also, I am not against Javascript at all. I just don't understand the role it has been given on the back-end. There are better languages and on the other hand I don't agree with the amount of engineering that goes into front-end applications that are built in things like React. It seems silly to me to rebuild standard functionality of your browser in a framework in order to gain some interactivity that was already there to begin with through plain-old-javascript. Rather than invest all that time and effort into React, Redux, Redux-sagas, Ember, Vue, etc, etc, etc (there are a whole bunch of etc) people would have spent their time a lot more productively if they'd help out with making web components happen properly.