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We’re past the halfway point of Bernhardt’s 2035 timeline; JavaScript hasn’t died yet, but it’s clearly writing its own eulogy in WebAssembly.
by RIshabh235 4mo ago
We’re past the halfway point of Bernhardt’s 2035 timeline; JavaScript hasn’t died yet, but it’s clearly writing its own eulogy in WebAssembly.
- jazz9k 4mo agoI review many sites/month from different clients. They are all using some form of JavaScript. It's like PHP, it will never die.
- fishfasell 4mo agoThe JS death and AI bubble are two events I keep hearing about but will never come.
- inigyou 4mo agoThe AI bubble is now, maybe you mean the AI bubble pop
- fishfasell 4mo agoYes sorry, bubble pop
- varun_ch 4mo agoIt’s also relevant that LLMs have so much JavaScript training data that I don’t see a world where we’re not still using JavaScript.
- lezojeda 4mo ago[dead]
- matt_kantor 4mo ago> It's like PHP, it will never die. I predict that PHP will live a long life, but not as long as C, and I predict JavaScript will have a lifespan closer to C's than PHP's.
- jerf 4mo ago"Death" is hard to define for a programming language. It's tempting to say "the last time anyone writes it", or maybe "runs it", but to put that in biological terms that seems like defining "death" for a person as "the last chemical bond that was part of their body is broken"... sure, it'll happen someday, but all the properties we associate with the term "death" happen rather soon than that.
- wiseowise 4mo agoMultiple generations of your family will be long dead before last JS instruction gets executed. Unless there's going to happen a global thermonuclear war. I still bet on JS surviving over most humans.
- Macha 4mo agoThe same is true of COBOL and Fortran. But also for most purposes, they are practically* dead. * With the one exception of BLAS which is widely used via NumPy
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