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> 8. Web development matures and a "standard" stack is accepted, all in JS. I'd walk into traffic.
by whatsmyusername 7y ago
> 8. Web development matures and a "standard" stack is accepted, all in JS.
I'd walk into traffic.
- amiga-workbench 7y agoI can see the web being driven into the ground in the next few decades, ever increasing complexity, more extreme hardware requirements for a bit of text on a page, it's already in a silly state, after another decade of this something needs to snap.
- grey-area 7y agoIt doesn't have to be that way. HN for example gets by just fine with minimal JS. JS is not even required for functional websites.
- whatsmyusername 7y agoDo you know what site works extremely well without js? Amazon, unironically. I did an entire transaction the other day with noscript on before I realized it. I'd never want to work for them but their tech is impressive. Only thing that didn't work was the logout button.
- madhadron 7y agoI'm reminded of the old adage that "we don't know what the scientific programming language of the future will look like but it will be called FORTRAN." JavaScript today is much more usable than what came out in 1995. You still can't use the Set type to usefully contain anything but primitives, but there's a Set type!
- twic 7y agoRight, but because the traffic will all be autonomous vehicles, that will be totally safe.