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Wait, so I've been lied to? https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death-of-javascript https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-de
by liftm 4y ago
Wait, so I've been lied to? https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death-of-javascript https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...
- ilyt 4y agoLanguage doesn't need to be good to be popular for a long time. PHP was (is) previous "shit but lowest common denominator that everyone uses it" before JS took that mantle. Also "good" depends on the audience. Ability to cheaply hire a bunch of devs to whip up CRUD app is "good" quality of PHP/JS even if it might not make the language "good" from engineering perspective.
- liftm 4y agoIgnore the JS bashing (it is deserved but irrelevant here). I was referring to the part explaining the 2028-2040 METAL system where "we" gained 4% execution speed because we stuffed all things into a asm.js VM in kernel that can skip syscall overhead. But it's a joke video anyway.