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Javascript, is a legacy technology, with browser folks pushing the envelope into backend and front end solutions. It should be clear to anybody working with wh
by kmasters 13y ago
Javascript, is a legacy technology, with browser folks pushing the envelope into backend and front end solutions.
It should be clear to anybody working with whatever.js that this is not technology that is here to stay.
This is still a browser patch. And everything underneath anything.js is a patch or a port or a hook, or a kludge.
There is no memory management, no threading, no accurate concept of parallelism and no support for anything but what the browser makers want to support.
Javascript is not a real language. It encompasses no real technology. And it will be replaced.
Javascript is the new applet.
- Kiro 13y agoReplaced with what? I think you're wrong.
- gingerlime 13y agoI think zed shaw's talk/rant pretty much says the same thing, perhaps with some more details and insights (as well as more F words) http://vimeo.com/43380467 http://vimeo.com/43380467 I think the gist of it is some kind of an ecosystem with browsers running a form of a Virtual Machine runtime, so people can write different languages that compile to the VM bytecode.
- threeseed 13y agoI disagree that Javascript is not a real language. But I do agree that the entire way we build web apps surely can't be sustained. It's incredibly cumbersome to do the simplest things and you are right that parallelism that is intrinsic to responsiveness in desktop/mobile apps is inadequate. But the real question is what the stack of the future should/will look like.