Ask HN: Will front end development ever move away from JavaScript?

Re:Ask HN: Will front end development ever move away from Ja... by ng12 on Sunday March 12, 2017 @02:07PM (#13852049)

Who's writing native ES6 code? Support for IE8 is just now starting to slip in the community (due too old, mundane things like Object.defineProperty). Almost every package on NPM targets ES3. Also, IE never ran everywhere. Targeting IE8 is hard, targeting IE6 was a nightmare.

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Re:Ask HN: Will front end development ever move away from Ja... by geuis on Sunday March 12, 2017 @02:54PM (#13852350)

I can't speak for you, but I've worked at a few companies and done some contracts overs the last 5 years and supporting ie8 easily stopped around 2012.

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Re:Ask HN: Will front end development ever move away from Ja... by ng12 on Sunday March 12, 2017 @03:08PM (#13852417)

Microsoft ended support for IE8 early 2016. Until then most open-source libraries supported it. I wrote an IE8-compatible application this year and only had to downgrade a few random libraries.

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