The surprising rise of JavaScript
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The surprising rise of JavaScript
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#2hasn't objective-c and java pretty much replaced all the demand for javascript?
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#3hasn't objective-c and java pretty much replaced all the demand for javascript?
No.
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#4How is the rise of the (unfortunately) sole technology that the ubiquitous multimedia platform of the beginning of the 21st century understands "surprising"?
The fact that we still haven't found a way to use anything else easily after about 15 years and are still being somehow coerced into developing with it is what's surprising really :/
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#5How is the rise of the (unfortunately) sole technology that the ubiquitous multimedia platform of the beginning of the 21st century understands "surprising"? The fact that we still haven't found a way to use anything else easily after about 15 years and are still being somehow coerced into developing with it is what's surprising really :/
> How is the rise of the (unfortunately) sole technology that the ubiquitous multimedia platform of the beginning of the 21st century understands "surprising"?
I recall that 14 years ago DHTML was the all the rage and javascript was the key to DHTML. So I took up JS and bought books and went in head first.
Conclusion: it was impossible to take that language seriously. Javascript was a hack.
So for me, the rise of javascript as anything more than a browser helper language has been very surprising. I still have some prejudice towards it. Maybe others feel the same way and knowing how O'Reilly comes from the UNIX tradition, I'm sure that's what they meant with that title.
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#6It isn't really all the surprising if you have the background Douglas Crockford provided in his yahoo series - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2ifWcnQs6M (part 1)
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#7hasn't objective-c and java pretty much replaced all the demand for javascript?
Not even close. JavaScript is the closest thing we have today to a 'universal' programming language.
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#8How is the rise of the (unfortunately) sole technology that the ubiquitous multimedia platform of the beginning of the 21st century understands "surprising"? The fact that we still haven't found a way to use anything else easily after about 15 years and are still being somehow coerced into developing with it is what's surprising really :/
> How is the rise of the (unfortunately) sole technology that the ubiquitous multimedia platform of the beginning of the 21st century understands "surprising"? I recall that 14 years ago DHTML was the all the rage and javascript was the key to DHTML. So I took up JS and bought books and went in head first. Conclusion: it was impossible to take that language seriously. Javascript was a hack. So for me, the rise of jav…
Similar story for me. Except that in 2010 I re-learnt JavaScript and discovered how beautiful, flexible and powerful it can be as a client side / server side language
Re: The surprising rise of JavaScript
#9How is the rise of the (unfortunately) sole technology that the ubiquitous multimedia platform of the beginning of the 21st century understands "surprising"? The fact that we still haven't found a way to use anything else easily after about 15 years and are still being somehow coerced into developing with it is what's surprising really :/
What surprised me was the whole node thing. Js in the browser being super hot was pretty predictable
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#10If Javascript is so great then why do we need Coffeescript?