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Javascript was never designed with the intent of ever being anything like Java is terms of reach and magnitude though, that's a hindsight thing.
by barberousse 7y ago
Javascript was never designed with the intent of ever being anything like Java is terms of reach and magnitude though, that's a hindsight thing.
- jasode 7y ago>Javascript was never designed with the intent of ever being anything like Java I agree.[0] I'm not criticizing Javascript nor Brendan Eich but trying to state why Javascript's particular history of minimal built-in capabilities has a ripple effect of motivating lots of bespoke frameworks. In a similar vein, the early C++ language didn't have a very extensive string manipulation library. So what happens? Different C++ programmers wrote their own little custom string libraries. E.g. Qt QString functions are different from Microsofts MFC CString. Take that example of code diversity and multiply it by 1000x for Javascript. [0] "The by-design purpose of JavaScript was to make the monkey dance when you moused over it." -- from https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/a/221658 https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/a/221658
- barberousse 7y agoUnderstood