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JavaScript is such a terribly designed programming language. But it doesn’t seem like anything will ever replace it. And newer tools, just get built on top of
by blackrock 6y ago
JavaScript is such a terribly designed programming language. But it doesn’t seem like anything will ever replace it. And newer tools, just get built on top of it, and transpiled down to JavaScript, thus adding evermore to be cruft of the language.
- pathartl 6y agoI'm a JS/PHP dev turned C# dev and I really just hate having to touch JS these days. For some internal systems we've needed to do some JS to customize Microsoft's Dynamics 365 platform. I opted to write everything in C# and transpile down to JS via Bridge.NET. It results in a multi-megabyte JS file, but you know what? My code is clean and organized. I can make use of things like reflection and OOP. I'm honestly very hopeful for Blazor and the future of front end development that isn't so reliant on a language that was really not designed with its current scale in mind.