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Re:Why We Won’t Be Writing JavaScript in Five Years by open_dave on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @03:40PM (#12491532)
We are fractured with frameworks, etc., but the underlying language (JS) and patterns are interoperable.

Its true that backend has had this since the dawn of time, but _not_ having that on the frontend allowed it flourish. I agree though that after a certain amount of time, only a few languages will live on.

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Re:Why We Won’t Be Writing JavaScript in Five Years by Gxorgxo on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @03:50PM (#12491614)
I don't want to be the millionth guy that mocks JS. I appreciate it because it brought us here. And it certainly helped to have only three languages (HTML, CSS, JS) in the early days but nowadays there are transpilers for each of them. The things we use the web for are simply so disparate that can't be covered by one single set of technologies
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Re:Why We Won’t Be Writing JavaScript in Five Years by Vendan on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @03:45PM (#12491574)
that's about like saying "the underlying language (assembly) and patterns are interoperable" on desktop, and note: the "backend" has been flourishing for quite some time, and since before javascript was such a big deal.
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