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Most popular ≠ most important. When it comes to web development, JS is all we have right now. Of course it's going to be widely used but that's not necessarily
by microwavecamera 8y ago
Most popular ≠ most important. When it comes to web development, JS is all we have right now. Of course it's going to be widely used but that's not necessarily by choice.
- melling 8y agoWell, JavaScript comes in many flavors these days. I posted this yesterday in another comment: ReasonML - OCaml - https://reasonml.github.io https://reasonml.github.io PureScript - Haskell - http://www.purescript.org http://www.purescript.org TypeScript - https://www.typescriptlang.org https://www.typescriptlang.org Scala.js - http://scala-js.org http://scala-js.org Elm - https://elm-lang.org https://elm-lang.org ghcjs - Haskell (https://github.com/ghcjs/ghcjs https://github.com/ghcjs/ghcjs) Fable - F# - https://fable.io https://fable.io This podcast covers many of them: http://bikeshed.fm/192 http://bikeshed.fm/192
- crimsonalucard 8y agoThousands of New comers are picking just as their first language due to this. They are biasing it as their favorite language by choice because it's all they've ever touched.