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Yup first thing I thought. That pathetic piece of crap conceived in basically 15 days (not kidding)... BUT it is what we have on the front-end for web apps so t
by TacticalCoder 2y ago
Yup first thing I thought. That pathetic piece of crap conceived in basically 15 days (not kidding)... BUT it is what we have on the front-end for web apps so there's that. JavaScript is the mediocre turd I love to hate.
- karel-3d 2y agoAnd it keeps being polished and improved to the point it's almost not a turd, and now has types sort of, and much better engines, and now there are ARM machines that are literally designed to run it faster, and now most of your actual PC applications are written in it. But honestly it's kind of refreshing to see the original node.js presentation, where using javascript is sort of a side-note. He wanted to use callback-heavy language and JS fit the bill https://youtu.be/EeYvFl7li9E https://youtu.be/EeYvFl7li9E
- GiorgioG 2y agoIt will always be a turd. Typescript is a nice illusion, but underneath is still the same turd.
- actionfromafar 2y agoTo me WASM is the wildcard. It lets other languages infect the Javascript host organism.
- Johanx64 2y agoProblem with Javascript is that it is not confined to webbrowsers and webapps, but it and it's associated business models (SaaS) finds it's way everywhere, at first desktop apps got enshitified by it, then all sorts of smart devices, and all the way to embedded systems in cars with their laggy sloppy UIs everywhere. It probably is the most severe case of "worse is better" I've experienced so far.