JavaScript is Good, Actually

Re:JavaScript is Good, Actually by pjmlp on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @01:13PM (#17084219)

A plan that is already in motion regardless how much you hate it.

Not all languages are like Python, a language that I only use for shell scripts anyway.

Blazor, Qt, Unity are all getting there.

Adobe can even bring Flash back.

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Re:JavaScript is Good, Actually by hajile on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @04:50PM (#17086350)

I love the idea of wasm allowing other languages, but it's going to take at least a decade to be usable for anything aside from heavy number crunching with C++. For a webpage, replacing the DOM with UI toolkit X is a pipe dream with problems ranging from aria/accessibility to web crawling and indexing issues.

Adobe won't be bringing flash back. It was basically just ES4. ESnext and HTML5 have almost all the good stuff plus quite a bit more while having far better performance than flash could achieve.

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Re:JavaScript is Good, Actually by pjmlp on Thursday May 17, 2018 @02:22AM (#17089204)

Thankfully Microsoft thinks otherwise.

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/webdev/2018/05/02/blazor-0-...

https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2018/BRK2151

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