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The trick is to use JS. (Not anything that compiles to it) It will be guaranteed to run in 100 years time. Any other language can die or have incompatibility
by quickthrower2 3y ago
The trick is to use JS. (Not anything that compiles to it)
It will be guaranteed to run in 100 years time.
Any other language can die or have incompatibility issues. Over that timespan.
- ebiester 3y agoYou could use Java or Python and have the same guarantee. I am not convinced Node will be here in 100 years.
- ak39 3y agoNode might not, but Javascript (even on the server) will mostly be.* * assuming that the 100 years hyperbole is accepted
- klyrs 3y agoBrainfuck is the only language we need. It's feature complete and practically guaranteed to go unchanged in the next millenium.
- kube-system 3y agoI can't tell if I'm being Poe's Law'd. JS engines are a moving target and have been ever since it was called LiveScript.
- satvikpendem 3y agoJust use LISP!
- satvikpendem 3y ago> It will be guaranteed to run in 100 years time. This is never guaranteed. How do you know that nothing will change in JS land in 10 years, much less 100? You don't, that's how.
- trealira 3y agoProgramming languages haven't even been around for 100 years. There's no guarantee we'll even be running programs written in C in 2123, let alone ones written in JavaScript. 100 years from now is a long time.