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"The best thing we can do today to JavaScript is to retire it." - Douglas Crockford, creator of JSON
by Zamicol 4y ago
"The best thing we can do today to JavaScript is to retire it."
- Douglas Crockford, creator of JSON
- mirekrusin 4y agoWe already did in favor of TypeScript.
- bogwog 4y agoTypescript is a bandaid. We need improved DOM access for web assembly, followed by a new icon in the URL bar that indicates you're on a "legacy" site if it's using javascript (my vote is for a cute snail emoji)
- mirekrusin 4y agoWe should make more bandaids like this, taking over big chunks of the programming world.
- llanowarelves 4y agoGoogle-affiliated Carbon looks awesome (to fix often-hated C++). What I like is that they have skin the game (sunk cost of millions LOC of C++ to maintain) to make it highly interopable.
- nop_slide 4y agoFunny enough I just watched this talk last night by the creator of HTMX https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRrrxQXWdhI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRrrxQXWdhI He mentions that "With HTMX we use a little bit of JavaScript so that we don't have to use any JavaScript."