Front-End Walkthrough: Building a Single Page Application from Scratch

Re:Front-End Walkthrough: Building a Single Page Application... by wernercd on Thursday July 20, 2017 @05:30PM (#14816462)

JavaScript is the defacto standard... despite glaring issues and confusion (== vs === for example).

PHP is a massive player... despite incoherent implementations, inconsistent name spaces, glaring holes in functionality...

Both of those are popular not because they are the "Best"... but because they are popular. They came out at the right time and got the momentum in the right spots.

Granted... some of that might be my own opinion, but those languages have MASSIVE issues and shortcomings. They aren't at the top because of "demonstrable superiority". They are at the top in spite of the issues.

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Re:Front-End Walkthrough: Building a Single Page Application... by sumedh on Friday July 21, 2017 @01:41AM (#14818321)

> They came out at the right time and got the momentum in the right spots.

The reason they got popular because they solved a need, if I am not mistaken making dynamic web pages was a pain before PHP, PHP made it easy.

The "best" language is useless if most devs find it hard to use.

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