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As stroustrup said, “There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.” There are many better languages than JS,
by pfraze 2y ago
As stroustrup said, “There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.”
There are many better languages than JS, and the browser ecosystem has shut down innovation in PLs, but there are some pretty large upsides to the era of language stability that we have now. I'm wary of incrementally improving a root layer and throwing out the enormous ecosystem of tooling and libraries in the process.
- skydhash 2y ago> the enormous ecosystem of tooling and libraries in the process Many of which don't even survive a year. And the worst is that they're actually solving the same stuff again and again. Managing libs manually in the jQuery era was not fun, but the NPM libraries galore we have now is worst IMO.