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 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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