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The formula is: new operating-system/vm/browser > new programming language > new libraries > new ui builder :). Choose any one and re-create everything that com

The formula is: new operating-system/vm/browser > new programming language > new libraries > new ui builder :). Choose any one and re-create everything that comes after. Rinse and repeat en-millennium. At some point in the next 10 years, a browser vendor will put out a new language that will have revolutionary new features like a 'built in type system' and 'compile time errors', and users will be amazed at how their browser now only uses .1% of their CPU to load a page and wonder why this language wasn't created sooner. And then as developers we will get to live through another golden age of UI Builders as we stoke the bonfire with the tens of thousands of man hours wasted creating JSX, 'components' and javascript/DOM hacks in general.

mca 11y ago
Nah, we will just continue to make more and more meta-compilers for our meta-languages so that they can inevitably become JavaScript just the same. We will continue to do this until the end of time because we are stubborn developers that need to write our code exactly as only we personally prefer, regardless of the web-destroying and kitten-killing implications. Seriously though (or are we?) the past 25 years of JavaScripting has amassed one heaping pile of momentum that wont end for at least another 25 years when our programs will be rewritten by our deep-learning quantum neural-net robotrons which will certainly deny us access after erasing any trace of these sacred ancient JavaScripts - leaving us helpless as we wait for our nano-thin clients to render our results in the cloud so that they can be displayed on our nano-thin displays. It's an abysmal future but someone has to live in it. Me however, I will be surely DEAD. HAHAHAHAHAHAHHA