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Language 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
by ilyt 4y ago
Language 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.