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Re:JavaScript's popularity appears to have peaked by koder2016 on Friday February 19, 2016 @04:14AM (#11132474)
The ancestor is called WebAssembly. It would be simply crazy to bet one's career on JS now. Pick a solid non-fringe functional language which compiles to LLVM. It will run in browser in 2-3 years.
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Re:JavaScript's popularity appears to have peaked by aokyler on Friday February 19, 2016 @06:50PM (#11137688)
I agree that javascript will be replaced in time, but that article in no way asserts that javascript is declining in favor of WebAssembly. WebAssembly shows promise, but it nowhere even near ready to begin mass adoption.

I have no issue with javascript fading away over time, that's just not what's happening right now.

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Re:JavaScript's popularity appears to have peaked by esailija on Friday February 19, 2016 @05:31AM (#11132722)
Which means you can actually use it in 20-30 years
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