We Should Stop Using JavaScript According to Douglas Crockford (2023)

0:03 My story was that javascript is a much better language than anybody knows.

0:10 And that if we use it properly, we can do amazing things about it and it can change the world and in fact that happened.

0:19 But now my evangel is that we should stop using javascript that it has so many congenital defects.

0:28 It really is a smelly language.

0:31 There's just a lot of crap in it and it still may be for its field of application, the best language in the world for doing that kind of stuff.

0:44 But that's not good enough.

0:45 We should be moving on to the next generation of languages.

0:48 It used to be that we'd get a new computer languages about every generation I started with FORTRAN and then C and C and java and javascript and so on.

1:01 And then it kind of stopped.

1:03 There are still people developing languages, but nobody cares, one person can make a programming language, a really good one, but you can't get adoption for it.

1:12 There are lots of terrible mistakes in the way that the web works in the way our operating systems work.

1:19 And we can't get new ones.

1:22 We're just stuck with this crap and, and they keep piling new features on everything and the new features always create new problems and it doesn't have to be like that.

1:33 We could be using really clean operating systems with really clean languages and really clean runtime and doing all this stuff in a much more reliable way.

1:45 But, but we don't seem to want to do that.

1:49 I've done javascript for a generation.

1:53 It's time for the next thing.

1:55 I, I don't think that should be AAA, considered a radical point of view.

1:59 I think it should be a normal evolutionary, view.

It's https://caniuse.com/wasm

1) we should stop using Javascript the way Douglas Crockford is using it/teaches us to use it

2) Douglas Crockford says Javascript should be not used

    document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", function() {
            const go = new Go();
  WebAssembly.instantiateStreaming(fetch("/assets/other/json.wasm.gz"), go.importObject).then((result) => {
                go.run(result.instance);
                WasmReady('welcome.html');
            });

and

and that's it! Then from go there's nothing I can't do in the DOM.