3 ms·
Javascript was such a misopportunity to use Scheme instead. All three HTML, JS, and CSS could have used one Lisp-like dialect. Also, I remembered that JS was
by didip 6y ago
Javascript was such a misopportunity to use Scheme instead.
All three HTML, JS, and CSS could have used one Lisp-like dialect.
Also, I remembered that JS was horribly misunderstood for a long time because people weren’t used to the prototypical inheritance. And this is where jQuery comes in and took JS to the next level.
- krapp 6y ago>All three HTML, JS, and CSS could have used one Lisp-like dialect. Other than being aesthetically pleasing to a demographic of programmers, what would be the benefit? Modern sites already have a problem with JS being used to generate CSS and HTML, and separation of concerns being completely abandoned, and that's just created a mess where three separate, more explicit languages were simpler.
- Wilem82 6y agoLol god forbid. Browser side programming is shitty enough without lisp nonsense.