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Is anyone else afraid that this will enable a "Tower of Babel" effect where the coming sheer profusion of languages will fragment web programming into dozens of
by mr_overalls 9y ago
Is anyone else afraid that this will enable a "Tower of Babel" effect where the coming sheer profusion of languages will fragment web programming into dozens of competing, mutually-incomprehensible linguistic camps.
Javascript sucks, but at least it's the web's lingua franca.
- krapp 9y ago>Is anyone else afraid that this will enable a "Tower of Babel" effect where the coming sheer profusion of languages will fragment web programming into dozens of competing, mutually-incomprehensible linguistic camps. That's already happening - web development seems to assume that compiling to javascript from any one of a legion of languages should be standard practice.