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I love every time an article like this appears. Everyone is immediately on the fence, bashing JavaScript furiously. Yet momentum doesn't appear to be declining?

by kalms 13y ago

I love every time an article like this appears. Everyone is immediately on the fence, bashing JavaScript furiously. Yet momentum doesn't appear to be declining? I'm a JavaScript developer mainly, with a background as a front-end oriented developer (php), but I also dabble a bit with C/Objective-C - especially since JavaScript got me interested in application development in general. JavaScript does bring a lot of freedom, a freedom that can hold you back, if you're not careful (code bloat, callback hell etc). The thing is, JavaScript is just plain fun to write in, and the responsiveness and full-stack capabilities are amazing. I think we just have to accept that JavaScript is here to stay. And should its popularity fade, I should be ok with that as well. But until then, I'll keep having fun at work.

frostmatthew 13y ago
There's a HUGE difference between "here to stay" and becoming the "dominant programming language of the enterprise"
- kalms 13y ago
  I'm not saying the article is right either, since it is a rather bold claim. But it is just as one sided to write it off as stupidity, because JavaScript is dynamically typed - or whatever. I can't force anyone to like JavaScript, nor would I like to, but my personal experience does lend some credence to OP from where I'm sitting. I think the biggest problem with OP's claim is the lack of true enterprise software written in JavaScript. I can't think of anyone, besides a few lightweight SaaS applications. We're currently building a large-scale application for public schools here in Scandinavia, but it is augmented by a .NET service backend. I hope we'll get a swing at a full-stack solution soon.
jack9 13y ago
> I love every time an article like this appears. Everyone is immediately on the fence, bashing JavaScript furiously. Yet momentum doesn't appear to be declining? All it will take a different scripting runtime (with equivalent performance, which isn't a hard problem) in a major browser and javascript will literally disappear in a half-decade.