If It Weren’t for Apple, Hybrid App Development Would Be the Winner Over Native

Re:If It Weren’t for Apple, Hybrid App Development Would Be ... by ElijahLynn on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @12:36PM (#14411288)

JavaScript is the future. All devs should know the basics.

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Re:If It Weren’t for Apple, Hybrid App Development Would Be ... by khedoros1 on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @02:14PM (#14412172)

Javascript is the present, and only part of the present. It's completely irrelevant to my area of development.

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Re:If It Weren’t for Apple, Hybrid App Development Would Be ... by ElijahLynn on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @04:50PM (#14413345)

I foresee JavaScript being with us for the next 20 years whether we like it or not. It is the language of the web. We may have transpilers of all sorts but it will always come down to JavaScript at the base.

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Re:If It Weren’t for Apple, Hybrid App Development Would Be ... by khedoros1 on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @08:08PM (#14414416)

Javascript may be around, as a compatibility layer at the very least. I tend to agree with the sibling comment, though: WASM at the base, compiled from Javascript (and just about every other language you could want). WASM isn't something you'd be likely to hand-code, it seems like.

None of that changes this fact for me: JS/ES is completely irrelevant to me as a development language. I've learned a bit and found portions reminiscent of a few other languages, but I don't really have a practical use for it, myself.

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Re:If It Weren’t for Apple, Hybrid App Development Would Be ... by buzzybee on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @05:32PM (#14413632)

Nope. Replaced by WASM within 5.

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Re:If It Weren’t for Apple, Hybrid App Development Would Be ... by ElijahLynn on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @05:43PM (#14413697)

That statement means we will all be using Web Assembly to manipulate the DOM...and then to do any scripting we will just be writing WASM? What am I missing here?

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Re:If It Weren’t for Apple, Hybrid App Development Would Be ... by thehardsphere on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @12:47PM (#14411391)

It's the future of parts of the web, not the future of everything.

All cyclists should know the basics, but nobody falts them for choosing not to ride a tricycle once they can choose between tricycles and bicycles. Or choosing to use a tractor trailer instead of a bike if that's what they need.

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Re:If It Weren’t for Apple, Hybrid App Development Would Be ... by ElijahLynn on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @04:51PM (#14413366)

JavaScript is the foundational language of the web. You can't build anything reasonable on the web without JavaScript. As far as I can see it will be with us for at least another 20 years.

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Re:If It Weren’t for Apple, Hybrid App Development Would Be ... by thehardsphere on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @09:52PM (#14414809)

The web is not everything.

Boyancy is the foundational concept of naval transportation, but it's not the foundational concept of all transportation.

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Re:If It Weren’t for Apple, Hybrid App Development Would Be ... by jbigelow76 on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @04:17PM (#14413110)

I used to think that* but began re-evaluating it when I found out how much of the world's population first computer is/was a smart phone. The inevitability of a language originally tied to a web browser optimized for desktop computers seems a whole lot less certain to me now.

[*] Not sure if I was right before or after, check back in a few years :)

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Re:If It Weren’t for Apple, Hybrid App Development Would Be ... by valuearb on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @01:02PM (#14411514)

I thought webassembly was the future?

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