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Your choices are totally sensible. What I meant was the idea that everyone is just waiting for JS to go away seems like you're extrapolating your preferences o
by woah 11y ago
Your choices are totally sensible.
What I meant was the idea that everyone is just waiting for JS to go away seems like you're extrapolating your preferences onto other people.
- halosghost 11y agoWell, while I would like to see many of the cool JS projects out there written in a language I am more amenable to (and thus, would like to see an end to JS), I recognize that not everyone agrees. So, in the meantime, I have the unfortunate stance of not using many of those projects that I would otherwise be interested in. Though, if a significant number of people feel similarly to me (that there are better options than JS and that wasm could catalyze the move towards those better options), then I do not really see a problem with JS going away. Perhaps that is just me. Again, I did not write this post with any intention of flaming or insulting those who like JS.
- saosebastiao 11y agoHe extrapolated to me quite well. The existence of hundreds of languages that compile to javascript is pretty good proof that there are tons of people that are waiting for JS to go away.
- halosghost 11y agoOr, at the very least, that there are many people that feel unsatisfied with JS in its current form.
- rpcope1 11y agoI think there are is a sizable contingent of those of us, who do not like Javascript (or the often impending callback hell that comes with a language not initially designed with concurrency in mind); the HN echo chamber may lead you to believe otherwise, but I personally will be very happy when I can skip the Javascript altogether, and pick a language I find more amenable when I get goaded into doing front-end development.