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No. Quite awake actually. JavaScript opens up a world of possibilities you cannot do with just HTML. It's the current platform of the browser app. If you are ha
by harel 8y ago
No. Quite awake actually. JavaScript opens up a world of possibilities you cannot do with just HTML. It's the current platform of the browser app. If you are happy with static websites, that's great. Most people are not.
- tathougies 8y agoI mean... you could replace javascript with any other programming language and achieve the same thing. The choice of javascript as the language with which to access the standardized APIs is arbitrary. Browsers could have equivalently chosen any other sufficiently similar language, like Lua or Python.
- williamxd3 8y agoIf it wasn't because of Java the browsers language would be Scheme
- tathougies 8y ago> the browsers language would be Scheme And the world would be 10000 times better off for it.
- williamxd3 8y agowounder if people would still complain
- harel 8y agoOf course they would. About the same things, in the same way.
- harel 8y agoYou can still do that. There are many languages that compile to Javascript though I never saw the point in those (mostly because I'm very comfortable with JavaScript as a language)