Re:The Future of JavaScript Will Be Less JavaScript
by ix-hispana on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @02:03PM
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If javascript goes the ecosystem goes too.
In real applications we need to use social login, share, google maps, shopify buy SDK, S3, Azure speech API and so on. The javascript tools to access all of that are plain old ES5 at best. How will we use them from another language?
Libraries, too. Are we going to find ourselves writing our own custom dropdowns and datepickers in C++? Not to mention our own view update and state management libraries.
This is the reason there are next to none real world examples of web apps made in Elm. No communication with planet Earth.
Re:The Future of JavaScript Will Be Less JavaScript
by kartan on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @03:12PM
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> Libraries, too. Are we going to find ourselves writing our own custom dropdowns and datepickers in C++?
You are talking about C++. If a library exists, already exists an implementation for it in C++. Comparing Elm with C++ doesn't makes so much sense.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_platform-independent_G...
Javascript was used beyond it's own merits as a language. It was the only feasible door to pluguinless development in the web. WebAssembly will allow people to choose. And even that a lot of developer will still have Javascript as a first option, others will not, and the web development environment is going to deeply change.