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Why does everything have to be Javascriptified? Scheme is a big part of the SICP experience and trying to do it in another language you are losing a lot. Do peo
by lispisok 3y ago
Why does everything have to be Javascriptified? Scheme is a big part of the SICP experience and trying to do it in another language you are losing a lot. Do people learn Javascript when starting their web development career then refuse to learn anything else? Getting stuck with JS in the browser is an artifact of history and given how bad the language is we should avoid spreading it yet the opposite is happening. Funny for an industry that's allegedly about doing things as smart as possible the lowest common denominator dominates.
- fuzztester 3y ago>Funny for an industry that's allegedly about doing things as smart as possible the lowest common denominator dominates. Yes. The key word here is allegedly. It's like how people rue the fact (a meme by now) that the (self-described) allegedly smartest minds in the world are desperately busy trying to, guess what, make people click more on ads(!), while largely ignoring ethics like giving people a choice about it, via opt-in rather than opt-out, confusing legalese in Privacy Policies and Terms and Conditions, fine print, etc.