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Oh I would agree but Javascript is anything BUT stable in its environnement and frameworks etc... Trying to update a one year old php code base with composer me
by nolok 2y ago
Oh I would agree but Javascript is anything BUT stable in its environnement and frameworks etc... Trying to update a one year old php code base with composer means no issue at the end in 99% of the time.
Javascript's ecosystem is not anywhere that yet.
- DonHopkins 2y agoOh don't worry, some day JavaScript will as stagnant as PHP, too. Just wait, time flies. If it's a stable environment that runs old code you want, then if I had my way we'd all be programming interactive distributed network extensible web apps in PostScript instead of JavaScript, and that language has been stagnant for a much longer time than PHP has ever existed (13 years before PHP 1.0 was released in 1995), since you can still print and view all of your old PostScript documents from 1982, 42 years ago. HyperMedia browser with embedded "applets" in PostScript: https://donhopkins.medium.com/hyperties-discussions-from-hacker-news-937d156f0330 https://donhopkins.medium.com/hyperties-discussions-from-hac... HyperCard-like GUI builder and SimCity in PostScript: https://donhopkins.medium.com/hyperlook-nee-hypernews-nee-goodnews-99f411e58ce4 https://donhopkins.medium.com/hyperlook-nee-hypernews-nee-go... Visual programming language in PostScript: https://donhopkins.medium.com/the-shape-of-psiber-space-october-1989-19e2dfa4d91e https://donhopkins.medium.com/the-shape-of-psiber-space-octo... Owen Densmore's description of John Warnock's "Linguistic Motherboard": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29295116 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29295116 Owen Densmore's object oriented PostScript programming system: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18696116 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18696116 Brian Reid's history of JaM, Interpress, and PostScript: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37202149 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37202149 PostScript's relation to Forth, Lisp, and Smalltalk: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21968175 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21968175 PostScript's relation to PDF: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37202149 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37202149 Alan Kay on "Should web browsers have stuck to being document viewers?" and a discussion of Smalltalk, HyperCard, NeWS, and HyperLook: https://donhopkins.medium.com/alan-kay-on-should-web-browsers-have-stuck-to-being-document-viewers-and-a-discussion-of-news-5cb92c7b3445 https://donhopkins.medium.com/alan-kay-on-should-web-browser...
- nolok 2y agoI'm not sure what this link dump is intended to do? And you're confusing stagnant with not breaking backward compatibility and / or the entire ecosystem not changing every couple of years.