Re:It’s COBOL all the way down
by onion2k on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @11:09AM
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Not much code will be practically reusable in 5/yr from now.
Is that really true? If you look at a lot of JS from 5, 10 or even 20 years ago it still works. The main things that stop it working are security changes, which is arguably a good thing. I don't see why many of today's JS libs will stop working in the future unless there's a good reason why they should.
Re:It’s COBOL all the way down
by ams6110 on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @11:19AM
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It's not that they won't work, but that nobody will be doing anything new in JS in 10 years. It will become forgotten, mysterious, scary -- like COBOL is today.
Is that really true? If you look at a lot of JS from 5, 10 or even 20 years ago it still works. The main things that stop it working are security changes, which is arguably a good thing. I don't see why many of today's JS libs will stop working in the future unless there's a good reason why they should.