Elbowing JavaScript out

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Post by ljoshua » Tue, Apr 19, 2016, 3:05 PM UTC

Elbowing JavaScript out
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Re: Elbowing JavaScript out

#2

Post by atomi » Tue, Apr 19, 2016, 3:26 PM UTC

I don’t even mind it living in the backend

You lost me there.

Re: Elbowing JavaScript out

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Post by amelius » Tue, Apr 19, 2016, 3:26 PM UTC

The worst part of JavaScript is that the relevant committee is simply failing to acknowledge that there are lots of bright computer language designers out there who'd love to have a chance to bring their creations to the web.

Re: Elbowing JavaScript out

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Post by JamesBaxter » Tue, Apr 19, 2016, 3:36 PM UTC

Generally I feel if I have a lot of business logic in Javascript than my view is wrong.

There are things like client side validation that I don't know how you'd do another way?

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Post by lcfcjs » Tue, Apr 19, 2016, 3:37 PM UTC

Yes please stop trying to be JS devs. Leave it to people who know the language. Someone who comes from Java or Python can just make monstrosities of code and then hate working on it again. What a surprise.

These are the people responsible for coffeescript, typescript, yourmumscript that won't exist in a year or so.

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Post by sheeshkebab » Tue, Apr 19, 2016, 3:38 PM UTC

atomi wrote: post #2

I don’t even mind it living in the backend You lost me there.

same here, stopped reading after that

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Post by sanjeetsuhag » Tue, Apr 19, 2016, 3:38 PM UTC

I hate the font on this page.

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Post by cdmckay » Tue, Apr 19, 2016, 3:39 PM UTC

amelius wrote: post #3

The worst part of JavaScript is that the relevant committee is simply failing to acknowledge that there are lots of bright computer language designers out there who'd love to have a chance to bring their creations to the web.

Doesn't WebAssembly allow them to bring their creations to the web?

Re: Elbowing JavaScript out

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Post by izym » Tue, Apr 19, 2016, 3:39 PM UTC

amelius wrote: post #3

The worst part of JavaScript is that the relevant committee is simply failing to acknowledge that there are lots of bright computer language designers out there who'd love to have a chance to bring their creations to the web.

How does WebAssembly not acknowledge that?

Re: Elbowing JavaScript out

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Post by larrykubin » Tue, Apr 19, 2016, 3:40 PM UTC

"I have been wanting to try building a complex webapp that uses nothing but a backend, CSS, HTML5 for a really, really, really, long while"

Coincidentally, I am going in the opposite direction after having written many Python/PHP apps with only a little JavaScript. I noticed on my current project I was writing less backend Python code. Last night I decided I'm going to try building a complex "serverless" webapp using only Firebase and more JavaScript than I typically write.