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It only seems capable due to those frameworks and abstractions. At the end of the day, there are only so many builtin types and functions on the core runtime. E
by reactordev 3y ago
It only seems capable due to those frameworks and abstractions. At the end of the day, there are only so many builtin types and functions on the core runtime. Everything else is up to the ecosystem to provide. Just like C or C++, at it's core, it's just a basic language for things. It's the libraries of code from others that give it [more] powers.
- mp05 3y ago> It only seems capable due to those frameworks and abstractions. Are talking about Javascript or the DOM? I write a lot of NodeJS and since somewhere around v8 or 9 it became pretty nice to use.
- reactordev 3y agoNodeJS is a framework. It adds to base JavaScript API’s for working on the system side. It’s an abstraction (albeit, additions) that give you more functions.
- mp05 3y ago> NodeJS is a framework. Huh, I had no idea. Sometime around Node 8.x, the async/await functionality in the ECMA spec was finally added to the stable API and I began to enjoy writing Javascript as a result. The language had a feature that was good, but the abstraction did not yet fully support it without a flag. The ECMAScript language is a good language.