Electron is flash for the desktop (2016)

Re:Electron is flash for the desktop (2016) by goatlover on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @11:29AM (#14088829)

Java isn't new and shiny anymore. Having been around for the great Java hype of the 90s, it's crazy that Javascript has now replaced it. Nobody would have predicted that back then.

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Re:Electron is flash for the desktop (2016) by lerpa on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @12:50PM (#14089902)

Javascript, Java, it's all the same after all ducks

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Re:Electron is flash for the desktop (2016) by goatlover on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @01:00PM (#14090000)

I really hate Netscape & Sun for causing that confusion, and making Javascript look like Java on the surface, particularly as it obscured the prototypal model of JS and made anonymous functions clunky until the arrow functions of ES6. But it was good marketing.

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