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JS nails it again even with Neuron Networks. What saddens me in latest years is the direction of library development, where people put more focus on Python inst

JS nails it again even with Neuron Networks. What saddens me in latest years is the direction of library development, where people put more focus on Python instead of Javascript. Javascript is universal, you can reuse your code in both browser, native apps and server. Python ? I don't think so. My dream of "getting the job done" is a universal language, universal ecosystem/libraries. We need universal developers, no need for full-stack developers anymore.

h8hawk 8y ago
Yeah! Making poorly designed and "weakly" typed language with enormous WTF's as a universal language! I think if they put more effort on webassembly, market share and library support for js will have a huge dropout. For more universal language how about have a actual sane language other than javascript or even python?
- vorticalbox 8y ago
  Type script is what will likely take over.
irascible 8y ago
Wholeheartedly concur with this. As a career programmer of 25 years, using most modern languages including python in both personal and professional work. This reminds me of how academia used to promote Pascal in schools when the community and industry had clearly embraced C and then C++ as the dominant compiled language.
noobiemcfoob 8y ago
I am a full stack developer using python for everything but what's in my HTML pages. And I'd replace that javascript with python as soon as it would be viable. Javascript is fine for what it is, but the idea of it as a universal language is gross.
- revskill 8y ago
  Good luck porting your Python code into other environments in case you need to.
aaaaaaaaaab 8y ago
>Neuron Networks This really sets the tone! >We need universal developers, no need for full-stack developers anymore. What if the “universality” of a developer has less to do with their language of choice, and more with their reasoning and abstraction capabilities?
- revskill 8y ago
  Because you want your reasoning and abstraction to be as portable as possible, don't you ?
gammateam 8y ago
I couldn't really understand how the JS community is so vibrant in some areas and flocks to libraries every other day, but the python community gravitated around all the big data stuff Not saying it shouldn't, I just don't get the aberration given the computational resources available today since compute instances mitigate single event loop issues Is there a JS version of numpy and panda? edit: yes, there are https://github.com/nicolaspanel/numjs https://github.com/nicolaspanel/numjs https://github.com/StratoDem/pandas-js https://github.com/StratoDem/pandas-js
- axel180 8y ago
  Also: https://github.com/gpujs/gpu.js https://github.com/gpujs/gpu.js Note: this is what brain.js is shifting over to. It uses the... GPU.

h8hawk 8y ago

Yeah! Making poorly designed and "weakly" typed language with enormous WTF's as a universal language! I think if they put more effort on webassembly, market share and library support for js will have a huge dropout. For more universal language how about have a actual sane language other than javascript or even python?

vorticalbox 8y ago
Type script is what will likely take over.

irascible 8y ago

Wholeheartedly concur with this. As a career programmer of 25 years, using most modern languages including python in both personal and professional work. This reminds me of how academia used to promote Pascal in schools when the community and industry had clearly embraced C and then C++ as the dominant compiled language.

noobiemcfoob 8y ago

I am a full stack developer using python for everything but what's in my HTML pages. And I'd replace that javascript with python as soon as it would be viable. Javascript is fine for what it is, but the idea of it as a universal language is gross.

revskill 8y ago
Good luck porting your Python code into other environments in case you need to.

aaaaaaaaaab 8y ago

>Neuron Networks This really sets the tone! >We need universal developers, no need for full-stack developers anymore. What if the “universality” of a developer has less to do with their language of choice, and more with their reasoning and abstraction capabilities?

revskill 8y ago
Because you want your reasoning and abstraction to be as portable as possible, don't you ?

gammateam 8y ago

I couldn't really understand how the JS community is so vibrant in some areas and flocks to libraries every other day, but the python community gravitated around all the big data stuff Not saying it shouldn't, I just don't get the aberration given the computational resources available today since compute instances mitigate single event loop issues Is there a JS version of numpy and panda? edit: yes, there are https://github.com/nicolaspanel/numjs https://github.com/nicolaspanel/numjs https://github.com/StratoDem/pandas-js https://github.com/StratoDem/pandas-js

axel180 8y ago
Also: https://github.com/gpujs/gpu.js https://github.com/gpujs/gpu.js Note: this is what brain.js is shifting over to. It uses the... GPU.