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>but javascript/typescript will probably be a good bet for the next 10 years Honestly how is javascript (and thus typescript) ever going away at this point? I
by mrlala 7y ago
>but javascript/typescript will probably be a good bet for the next 10 years
Honestly how is javascript (and thus typescript) ever going away at this point? I honestly mean _ever_. Like until the day I die. Almost the entire web is using it. Frameworks like React, Angular, Vue have made it so I basically don't care that much about javascript. Most of my code is server-side and the client is largely handled by Angular as a framework so the amount of JS I have to write in my angular components is so minimal.
All that being said, I personally am not a fan of javascript.. at all. The learning curve to know what's going on is horrific in my opinion, and code is not meant to be written clearly but have a small footprint which is terrible. It's too flexible.. though typescript has solved 90% of that.
Even if something like Blazor completely transforms the web, it seems like there will ALWAYS be the case for streamlined simple sites that only need very simple javascript transformations..
Anyway- unfortunately I think javascript is here for the next billion years!
- mpartel 7y agoWebAssembly has some hope of changing how browsers are programmed, but you're probably right that JS will live on for many human generations as a legacy tech at least.
- Roboprog 7y agoContrarian, albeit minority, view: I really like ECMAScript. It’s not a weaker Java, it’s better. I’ve been programming since the 80s. We had OOP shoved down our throats in college (CSU), with FP downplayed due to the runtime cost. Things have changed, and I want to move on. I wish there was demand for ClosureScript. TypeScript has no support for partial function application and currying, unless it was added very recently.