Ask HN: What if JavaScript isn't the solution to everything

Post by [deleted] » Sat, Apr 22, 2017, 5:21 PM UTC

scarface74 wrote: post #29

psyc wrote: post #25

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Load it up with whatever bloat causes every browser other than Opera to struggle at every moment with scrolling a page. Which is absolutely the case on my 4 year old laptop. For whatever reason, Opera handles this like a dream, while Firefox and Chrome cannot, though I frequently go back and try them again.

Load it up with whatever bloat causes every browser other than Opera to struggle at every moment with scrolling a page. Which is absolutely the case on my 4 year old laptop. For whatever reason, Opera handles this like a dream, while Firefox and Chrome cannot, though I frequently go back and try them again. Opera and Chrome use the same rendering engine now. Why would Opera work better than Chrome? The second questio…

Post by psyc » Sat, Apr 22, 2017, 5:34 PM UTC

scarface74 wrote: post #28

psyc wrote: post #5

If you stop thinking like a front-end web dev, and take a step back from the whole thing, the status quo is truly insane and embarrassing. A many-billion dollar, world changing industry has been exclusively constrained to one dynamically-typed, weird language cooked up by one guy in a hurry, over 20 years ago. How can such a phenomenon even exist, without programmers falling over themselves to create a development ec…

A many-billion dollar, world changing industry has been exclusively constrained to one dynamically-typed, weird language cooked up by one guy in a hurry, over 20 years ago. I'm definitely not a lover of JavaScript as a language, but it helps when you start thinking about JS as a "assembly language for the web". Very few people get worked up about whether x86 assembly language is a bad language we've for the most part…

Post by mcphage » Sat, Apr 22, 2017, 7:22 PM UTC

lj3 wrote: post #17

mcphage wrote: post #16

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You're in the minority.

No, he's not. My mother runs Firefox, Chrome and IE. She uses each one for different sites because certain sites only work well on certain browsers. PS: The idea that the web has parity is a joke. It doesn't.

Post by atfd » Sun, Apr 23, 2017, 2:53 PM UTC

danieltillett wrote: post #21

k__ wrote: post #3

What if it is? JS isn't that bad, the ecosystem big enough to avoid the small libs written by n00bs and easy to acces s thanks to npm. Npm isn't perfect, but better than what most languages have. Many people already know JS and it's pretty much the easiest language to get started with, you just need a browser and an editor. Most people don't use the best solution for a problem because often nobody knows what this wou…

Any suggestion on which human language is better than English?

Post by Can_Not » Tue, Apr 25, 2017, 1:42 PM UTC

fidz wrote: post #39

Why this was flagged?