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I find it ridiculous that javascript is the only language available for the web. Almost every other platform, from bare metal to Excel, support multiple languag
by speedplane 8y ago
I find it ridiculous that javascript is the only language available for the web. Almost every other platform, from bare metal to Excel, support multiple languages. It's well past due to untie the browser from a mandated language.
- dodobirdlord 8y agoWell, that's largely the problem that WebAssembly is aiming to solve. Progress has been significant.
- fulafel 8y agoYou've been living under a rock :) People are using a variety languages that compile to JS on the frontend for many years. Elm, TypeScript, ClojureScript, Reason, Scala.js, Fable, etc. In fact even modern JS is often compiled into backward compatible legacy-JS these days. WebAssembly is porting the C machine model to the web, so for the foreseeable future JS is still going to be a better runtime for most GCd languages.