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Why JavaScript, out of all languages in the world? I don’t think that’s a particularly great choice.
by thosakwe 8y ago
Why JavaScript, out of all languages in the world?
I don’t think that’s a particularly great choice.
- jmpt 8y agoLarge headcount of developers. Everybody and their dog does Javascript.
- AsyncAwait 8y agoUs holdouts would like to have somewhere left to run to too.
- izacus 8y agoSo by that metric, Java is a significantly better choice still ;)
- scarface74 8y agoThere are all sorts of optimizations that are much harder to do in a non statically typed language. There are also all types of guaranteed safe automated refactoring you can do with a statically type language. I shutter to think about using a non type safe language with a large code base.
- DannyBee 8y agoIf that's your metric, java has many more developers (millions more, in fact).
- tabs_masterrace 8y agoJavascript is just a platform to run transcompiled stuff on these days, not unlike the name giver's JVM