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> Where are the killer apps that were developed through a niche JS transpiler? If you want to build a web app in Haskell instead of the web's true lingua franca
by teacup50 13y ago
> Where are the killer apps that were developed through a niche JS transpiler? If you want to build a web app in Haskell instead of the web's true lingua franca, all you're accomplishing is making it harder to hire and harder to collaborate.
You're right about one thing: JavaScript is awful, but trying to avoid JavaScript while targeting a web browser is worse.
I simply don't write software for the web. HTML/CSS/JS is too much of a train wreck of bad design for me to find any pleasure whatsoever in the task, and I'm content leaving the job anyone that can stomach it.
However, if we followed your argument to its conclusion, we'd never escape the atrophied staleness of a browser technology core that somehow has never moved past 1995-era Netscape.