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If you pick 1994/1995 as the cutoff, you then have Java, JavaScript and Ruby in the latter group. So I'm calling bullshit on an argument framed around one the b
by dwd 6y ago
If you pick 1994/1995 as the cutoff, you then have Java, JavaScript and Ruby in the latter group. So I'm calling bullshit on an argument framed around one the biggest years in software language advancement.
Not to mention ignoring PHP, C# and the the whole .Net framework.
- hn_throwaway_99 6y agoBut that's what I find so dumb about this post - so what if the original JavaScript came out in 1995, as the current version is so vastly different (and improved) and used for such wildly different things than the original that it's barely the same language. I mean, heck, I was out of JS dev for just a couple years in the early 2010s and when I originally got back into it I could barely understand JS code: ES2015 added a ton of syntax changes, I was totally new to the Node/NPM ecosystem and the whole JS web app toolchain (babel, webpack, etc.)