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> Now that the platform is evolving and innovating again, more and more things are moving out of the frameworks and back into the platform. Javascript has mass
by zer8k 3y ago
> Now that the platform is evolving and innovating again, more and more things are moving out of the frameworks and back into the platform. Javascript has massively improved.
A language so good you need to write another language that compiles into that language to make it tolerable.
> Some amazing and complex engineering happens in the frontend space because of the constraints and the need to eek performance out of everywhere you can. You can't just throw more servers at the problem.
I'm not sure about this opinion. Most websites are slow as all get out and require me to download the world to even get working.
> Experiences vary, but I've been on more projects delayed by over-engineering the backend than the frontend.
As a person on the backend I can tell you your definition of "overengineering" is ignoring the fact we have to deal with frontend cowboys all the time. When SEVs happen it's us on trial almost universally. Just the absolutely bonkers states a frontend can accidentally end up in despite good testing is enough to warrant "overengineering" to try to support it.
We had an opportunity to kill javascript and instead we embraced it. We deserve what we get.
- claytongulick 3y ago> A language so good you need to write another language that compiles into that language to make it tolerable If static typing is your thing, I guess. It's not for everyone. > We had an opportunity to kill javascript and instead we embraced it. We deserve what we get. Some of us quite enjoy the language.
- The_Colonel 3y ago> A language so good you need to write another language that compiles into that language to make it tolerable. Some people need it to make it tolerable. That happens on every platform. You have Java and Kotlin/Scala/Groovy ... Microsoft even created F# to its C# ... > We had an opportunity to kill javascript and instead we embraced it. We deserve what we get. You mean VBScript? Or what other opportunity you mean? I often get the sense that JS haters last saw the language in 1999. Modern JavaScript is a very nice scripting language. Succint, elegant, functional. Its major omission is the lack of static typing, but JSDoc and WebStorm make it tolerable.