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Someone else posted this another thread and I agree: any methodology that determines that JavaScript is "treading water" is suspect. Even if you ignore JS on t

by chubot 14y ago

Someone else posted this another thread and I agree: any methodology that determines that JavaScript is "treading water" is suspect. Even if you ignore JS on the server side, I would be very surprised if its importance and use was not increasing pretty rapidly.

tom_m 14y ago
I agree...I couldn't trust an article that thinks JS is "treading water' ... It's so far from the truth it's not funny. Keep in mind things like MongoDB use JavaScript with map/reduce and other commands. Then of course look no farther than the mobile world. If anything I would expect JavaScript to become one of the top most used and popular languages out there. Given that it can be used for many, many, things including some decent graphics work. Desktop apps, mobile, server, databases, and of course (and always since the 90's) blinky text in HTML documents =)
- chewxy 14y ago
  Or it could be you're in a bubble, and the greater world has not heard about the great and wonderful javascript yet.
chrsstrm 14y ago
The article says those figures were from Google Trends, which tracks searches on certain keywords. It failed to mention if this was explicitly for "javascript" or if it included other keyword variations as well. Add in searches for jQuery and the names of any popular library or MV* framework and I would bet you see a much different story.
mattmanser 14y ago
Why, if we ignore it on the server, would it be increasing suddenly? Nothing's changed. Only node.js is new.
- chubot 14y ago
  It's not increasing suddenly -- it's been increasing for the last 5+ years. Or really increasing for the last 15 years continuously, but in the last 5 years it's gotten a boost with new libraries and so forth, fast Chrome enabling rich experiences, etc. JavaScript is just being used for more and more things, and there are more of the things that it has always been used for. To say it's "treading water" means it was flat between 2011 and 2012, which I don't think is true.

by chubot 14y ago

tom_m 14y ago

I agree...I couldn't trust an article that thinks JS is "treading water' ... It's so far from the truth it's not funny. Keep in mind things like MongoDB use JavaScript with map/reduce and other commands. Then of course look no farther than the mobile world. If anything I would expect JavaScript to become one of the top most used and popular languages out there. Given that it can be used for many, many, things including some decent graphics work. Desktop apps, mobile, server, databases, and of course (and always since the 90's) blinky text in HTML documents =)

chewxy 14y ago
Or it could be you're in a bubble, and the greater world has not heard about the great and wonderful javascript yet.

chrsstrm 14y ago

The article says those figures were from Google Trends, which tracks searches on certain keywords. It failed to mention if this was explicitly for "javascript" or if it included other keyword variations as well. Add in searches for jQuery and the names of any popular library or MV* framework and I would bet you see a much different story.

mattmanser 14y ago

Why, if we ignore it on the server, would it be increasing suddenly? Nothing's changed. Only node.js is new.

chubot 14y ago
It's not increasing suddenly -- it's been increasing for the last 5+ years. Or really increasing for the last 15 years continuously, but in the last 5 years it's gotten a boost with new libraries and so forth, fast Chrome enabling rich experiences, etc. JavaScript is just being used for more and more things, and there are more of the things that it has always been used for. To say it's "treading water" means it was flat between 2011 and 2012, which I don't think is true.