JavaScript Conquered the Web, Now It’s Taking Over the Desktop

Re:JavaScript Conquered the Web, Now It’s Taking Over the De... by jaquers on Monday September 12, 2016 @01:54PM (#12481986)

I think the spirit of the argument is that if you have requirements for heavy computation such that you need multithreading + low level memory management, then you probably shouldn't use this. Use the right tool for the job. This is just one of them.

Plus there are alternatives to threads. Look at the state of Atom or VSCode. Much progress has been made in terms of perf and these are not trivial applications.

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Re:JavaScript Conquered the Web, Now It’s Taking Over the De... by dilann on Monday September 12, 2016 @02:00PM (#12482052)

> Use the right tool for the job

That's a funny argument in a thread about js. Js has started as a small language to do scripting on the pages, now they are sticking it everywhere.

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Re:JavaScript Conquered the Web, Now It’s Taking Over the De... by goatlover on Monday September 12, 2016 @02:51PM (#12482549)

Because people don't actually use the right tool for the job when it comes to software. Instead, they take the tool they know, ignore the better tools they would rather not have to learn, and make the known tool do things it was never designed for.

Excel is a great example of that, but it's done with programming languages as well.

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