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Familiarity. If you are someone who builds traditional web UIs, then Javascript is what you know best, and that is the market segment they are trying to attract
by randomdata 13y ago
Familiarity. If you are someone who builds traditional web UIs, then Javascript is what you know best, and that is the market segment they are trying to attract what this product.
If people truly want the better languages and frameworks that you mention, then the products that come out with those choices should win out in the marketplace eventually.
- zxcdw 13y agoExcept that no. Because of players within the market entrench themselves, like JavaScript for example has, there's practically no way for a change. The iterative change is constantly restricted by past decisions, abstractions and investments. It's very hard to come up with nothnig but "good enough, sort of" solutions in this kind of a model. I don't even know why I care. Psychology is a bitch, and I suffer. :(
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- dxhdr 13y agoThe question is, why are they trying to attract the segment of the market that builds traditional web UIs?
- randomdata 13y agoBecause they have identified a demand from people writing web UIs and wish to make money fulfilling that demand, I expect. There seems, from my anecdotal vantage point at least, to be a distinct trend of developers becoming more interested in hardware and it would appear that some of those developers would like to write software for that hardware using the tools they already know. Since the web has been the place where a significant portion of software has been written in the recent past, Javascript happens to be the tool that is familiar.