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Does the title of this article propose a false dichotomy between two equally unlikely outcomes, or was that a giant waste of 15 paragraphs of my time? Look, JS
by ender7 14y ago
Does the title of this article propose a false dichotomy between two equally unlikely outcomes, or was that a giant waste of 15 paragraphs of my time?
Look, JS is a lovely language, and it's fun to write things in Node. However, no one thinks that JS is going to become a "universal language", even though all the cool kids are writing the next great todo list web app using Node-powered hyper asteroids. Nor will Javascript "die out" for reasons that should be obvious to anyone. Some people will write backends in Node, but most people will write them via one of the other myriad backend languages available. Huzzah! Choices in backend development. Rejoice!
- beatgammit 14y agoI didn't read anything new there, except maybe the mention of ASM.js. JS is a fine language, but I've run into problems where I wished I had just a little more structure. I've started to turn to Dart, and I hope it catches on. My servers are usually in Go because that's what it was designed for. So to answer your question, I think it was a giant wast of 15 paragraphs. No new information, no new analysis, just the same old complaining.
- nickporter 14y ago> ...giant waste of 15 paragraphs of my time? Pretty much.