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> By this logic, no new language would ever take off. And in many cases they haven't. Javascript competitors seem like a prime example of this as there are to
by bb88 8y ago
> By this logic, no new language would ever take off.
And in many cases they haven't. Javascript competitors seem like a prime example of this as there are too many javascript libraries that make your life easier, and would have to be ported to a new language.
What makes a language successful primarily is how easy it is to do productive things with it -- and that means easily using existing code (from some other language).
- mping 8y agoJavaScript has been a victim of its own success in many ways. It's so popular that other languages just transpile to js. In the end it runs js, but it doesn't matter much. OTOH good libraries have bindings for the source language (eg react has wrappers in scalajs, clojurescript, etc)
- newen 8y agoJavascript is clearly a special case because of browser dependency on JS. You can't apply most statements about JS's popularity to other languages.