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Fascinating. I wonder what the equivalent headline would be today. Which hardware or software technologies are currently blasting away, but if you look at the
by ilaksh 4y ago
Fascinating.
I wonder what the equivalent headline would be today. Which hardware or software technologies are currently blasting away, but if you look at the cutting edge, are actually obsolescent?
I'm going to get buried for this but, even though I have been a JavaScript programmer for many years, in the software side I think it's JavaScript, and even further a few years after that, web browsers.
I see web assembly as a compelling target for many types of applications on the backend, or blockchain etc.
I think that _could_ also eventually translate into momentum for standards for i/o devices for web assembly.
- 8bitsrule 4y agoAfter years of trying many languages, I started using JS many years ago, and it's so fast and familiar (w/ a big routines library built) and versatile (with HTML & CSS) that I won't be leaving it behind for personal projects.
- ilaksh 4y agoI also feel that JavaScript or something similar is also the most practical language for many projects. Especially as you mentioned with the huge library (npm etc.). Having said that, web assembly has the potential for an even bigger library of modules to be built up, since modules written in one programming language could potentially interoperate with those written in another language.