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Why is it a bad thing? Most programmers used to have to write assembly language until high level languages became usable. Would it be such a bad thing if Javasc
by jareds 2y ago
Why is it a bad thing? Most programmers used to have to write assembly language until high level languages became usable. Would it be such a bad thing if Javascript became a low level implementation detail? (I used to write z/OS Assembly and now use Java and Go. My last web development experience was in 2010)
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- qwm 2y agoI do think it would be bad if that happened, and there's been talk about it with a proposal to separate JS "syntax" and a JS "core", almost treating JS like assembly. We have WebAssembly for that purpose. I just think using extra type checking tools is ideal when you're working on large scale projects using a dynamically typed scripting language. The real tragedy is writing large scale projects in a scripting language, but that's just the world we live in when browsers are dominant.