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Disagree. I think JS is ubiquitous in part because the language maintainers are willing to adopt new syntax and borrow concepts from other languages, and there
by ARandomerDude 3y ago
Disagree. I think JS is ubiquitous in part because the language maintainers are willing to adopt new syntax and borrow concepts from other languages, and therefore keep the language modern and accessible.
For example, CoffeeScript was everywhere about 10 years ago. If someone had told me then that in 5 years it would be dead, and in 10 years new devs would not have even heard of it, I wouldn’t have believed it. CoffeesScript died largely because JS adopted most of the innovations Coffee brought to the table in ES2015/ES6, thus Coffee became unnecessary.
- duped 3y agoLISPS have been pioneering and cross pollinating with new language features since LISP was invented.
- ARandomerDude 3y agoI didn’t say otherwise. I’m actually much more proficient in Clojure than I am in JS in part for that reason. Still, JS has come a long way in the past 10 years, which is impressive. When I need to write JS, I’m glad the days when I needed to use Underscore just to get map, reduce, etc. are long gone.
- pi-e-sigma 3y agoThat's why to this day they can't implement a simple integer type
- edflsafoiewq 3y agoBigInt