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If JavaScript never goes away and no other options are built into the web browser, the web will become irrelevant within 10-15 years. No language lasts forever
by georgemcbay 15y ago
If JavaScript never goes away and no other options are built into the web browser, the web will become irrelevant within 10-15 years.
No language lasts forever (especially not one that evolves as slowly as Javascript does), and tying the web to JavaScript and JavaScript only very obviously dooms the web. Not this year or three years from now, but eventually.
That nobody other than Google is making long-view plans for the future in this regard is somewhat insane.
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- narkee 15y agoI think you should say rather that web browsers that only run javascript will be irrelevant. I doubt the web is going anywhere...
- georgemcbay 15y agoWell that was basically the point I was trying to make. The web is going to have to evolve to a post-Javascript future at some point. I believe this will happen no matter how hard the JavaScript-only diehards fight against it. I'm certainly not saying the web is doomed, only that it would be if the JavaScript-only crowd really got their wish (which in the long run they won't, they can't).