I don't see what problems it solves. Rather, the "problems" that is solves are not really problems to me. I want to develop software in a stack that is entirely free of Javascript. Does anyone else ever feel this way?
Ask HN: Is anyone else just tired of JavaScript?
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#2JavaScript is slowing down and at times actually reversing innovation.
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#3Yes.
I am maintaining an Anglaur app just now. What a waste of effort. Everything would have been so much simpler if it was kept server side. Instead we have a ton of duplicated logic.
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#4I believe that's why Web Assembly (https://webassembly.org/) has been created. Eventually we will be able to use any language that can compile to Wasm.
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#5I'm actually more excited than I have ever been in the JS ecosystem. Sure, there's framework fatigue, but ES6+ features have been a pleasure to learn and use, and picking up Typescript has been a serious boon to a more OO style approach to client side engineering. The previous two years have been refreshing.
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#6I don't care about JavaScript, but I love browsers as platforms; and as long as JavaScript is the de-facto language of the browsers, it will remain an important language.
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#7JavaScript itself isn't the problem. The ecosystem is the problem. There is so much bad stuff out there that I stop reading articles about hot new software when they mention npm.
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#8Yes. I am maintaining an Anglaur app just now. What a waste of effort. Everything would have been so much simpler if it was kept server side. Instead we have a ton of duplicated logic.
Stating the obvious, but that's the fault of whoever decided to do it in Angular and didn't understand the trade-offs of single page apps. If an app can be just as easily (or more easily) implemented server-side with no 'relevant' impact on UX, it probably should be.
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#9This is really vague. Javascript is necessary for building rich web applications. What are the uninteresting problems you see as Javascript's main purpose?
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#10>I don't see what problems it solves. Rather, the "problems" that is solves are not really problems to me.
Then why do you use it?