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

Re:JavaScript Conquered the Web, Now It’s Taking Over the De... by oblio on Monday September 12, 2016 @02:31PM (#12482365)

> Slightly tangentially though, I wonder if we really really put our mind to it, will we be able to just kill JavaScript ?

Humans that "really wanted to" landed on the Moon, brought hundreds of millions of people out of poverty, cured polio and brought down Communism.

The real problem is that you'll never get that many people to agree on something like killing Javascript and creating something radically superior (whatever that is). The web ecosystem is proof of the highest level of agreement possible on a wide scale.

And to be honest, what's the alternative? If Javascript dies, we won't get a great new common programming language. We'll get 10 mostly walled gardens with barely any compatibility. Unix vendor wars, post-web edition.

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Re:JavaScript Conquered the Web, Now It’s Taking Over the De... by cwyers on Monday September 12, 2016 @02:42PM (#12482470)

Here's the thing -- we didn't need to get the moon's participation. A moon shot is an application of physics, with some concern for weight tradeoffs and fuel energy density and the like. It's not a coordination problem.

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