"It's not pro- or anti-JavaScript;"
OK
The Birth and Death of JavaScript [video]
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#13Stellar stuff. Hugely enjoyable. Very interesting thought experiment. I won't spoil it for any of you, just go and watch! Mr. Bernhardt, you have outdone yourself sir :)
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#14For context, this was one of the most enjoyed talks at PyCon this year.
JavaScript at PyCon?
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#15Extraordinarily entertaining and well presented.
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#16nice nice,ultimatly languages dont die,unless they are closed source and used for a single purpose ( AS3 ). In 2035,people will still be writing Javascript. I wonder what the language will look like though. Will it get type hinting like PHP? or type coercion? will it enforce strict encapsulation and message passing like Ruby ? will I be able to create adhoc functions just by implementing call/apply on an object? or s…
Adhoc functions can be written using ES6 Proxy [1].
[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
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#17For those unfamiliar, Gary Bernhardt is the same guy who did the famous "Wat" talk on JavaScript:
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#18This is actually not a bad lecture. Very interesting, a nice idea and surprising.
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#20"It's not pro- or anti-JavaScript;" OK
Did you watch it?