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I can't possibly count the number of times people have tried to create such lists. I feel like it's every other day. Javascript is definitely in danger. I fe

I can't possibly count the number of times people have tried to create such lists. I feel like it's every other day. Javascript is definitely in danger. I feel like its just hurtling down a trajectory of becoming the assembly of the web. The library churn is not helping.

drderidder 12y ago
I'm thinking of things like TodoMVC. There's an abandoned list on nodejs.org that categorizes many of the earliest npm modules. A lot of those modules have matured and are still in use. MicroJS.com is another one I'd probably reference. Curation is a problem in most languages, especially popular ones. Java definitely has the same problem, and anyone wanting to develop native cross-platform apps is faced with similar bewildering choices.
wtbob 12y ago
> I feel like its just hurtling down a trajectory of becoming the assembly of the web. IMHO that's the best possible thing which could happen to it. JavaScript is a hideous, ugly, horrible, broken language. But so is machine code, and it doesn't matter because I can write in real languages and let a Sufficiently Intelligent Compiler™ figure out how to encode my program. If I could write in a real language and have it compiled to JavaScript, I'd be a lot happier about writing browser-based apps. (I'm still not happy about every single web page demanding executable code in order to, e.g., display a blog entry, but that's a different issue)
- pldpld 12y ago
  You can! https://github.com/clojure/clojurescript https://github.com/clojure/clojurescript, https://github.com/swannodette/om https://github.com/swannodette/om