The Birth and Death of JavaScript (2014)
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The Birth and Death of JavaScript (2014)
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#2We’re past the halfway point of Bernhardt’s 2035 timeline; JavaScript hasn’t died yet, but it’s clearly writing its own eulogy in WebAssembly.
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#3I love(?) that he absolutely predicted a global disaster between 2020-2025, he just got the wrong type. Which is very JavaScript.
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#4We’re past the halfway point of Bernhardt’s 2035 timeline; JavaScript hasn’t died yet, but it’s clearly writing its own eulogy in WebAssembly.
I review many sites/month from different clients. They are all using some form of JavaScript.
It's like PHP, it will never die.
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#5My first contact with js was trying to make a button change its color on mouseover. There was no css back then. I bought a book and was so put off from the syntax that i never looked back to js from that day on. Never regretted my decision
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#6We’re past the halfway point of Bernhardt’s 2035 timeline; JavaScript hasn’t died yet, but it’s clearly writing its own eulogy in WebAssembly.
I review many sites/month from different clients. They are all using some form of JavaScript. It's like PHP, it will never die.
The JS death and AI bubble are two events I keep hearing about but will never come.
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#7My first contact with js was trying to make a button change its color on mouseover. There was no css back then. I bought a book and was so put off from the syntax that i never looked back to js from that day on. Never regretted my decision
I had a similar path and never came back to JS until work forced me to learn. To me, it has only gotten more readable.
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#8Every few years, we invent a better JavaScript. Then we transpile it to JavaScript.
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#10My first contact with js was trying to make a button change its color on mouseover. There was no css back then. I bought a book and was so put off from the syntax that i never looked back to js from that day on. Never regretted my decision
I had a similar path and never came back to JS until work forced me to learn. To me, it has only gotten more readable.
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