Ask HN: Is anyone else just tired of JavaScript?

Re:Ask HN: Is anyone else just tired of JavaScript? by harel on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @02:49PM (#17136936)

No. Quite awake actually. JavaScript opens up a world of possibilities you cannot do with just HTML. It's the current platform of the browser app. If you are happy with static websites, that's great. Most people are not.

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Re:Ask HN: Is anyone else just tired of JavaScript? by tathougies on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @02:53PM (#17136982)

I mean... you could replace javascript with any other programming language and achieve the same thing. The choice of javascript as the language with which to access the standardized APIs is arbitrary. Browsers could have equivalently chosen any other sufficiently similar language, like Lua or Python.

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Re:Ask HN: Is anyone else just tired of JavaScript? by harel on Thursday May 24, 2018 @04:58AM (#17142267)

You can still do that. There are many languages that compile to Javascript though I never saw the point in those (mostly because I'm very comfortable with JavaScript as a language)

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Re:Ask HN: Is anyone else just tired of JavaScript? by williamxd3 on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @03:16PM (#17137206)

If it wasn't because of Java the browsers language would be Scheme

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Re:Ask HN: Is anyone else just tired of JavaScript? by tathougies on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @07:44PM (#17139526)

> the browsers language would be Scheme

And the world would be 10000 times better off for it.

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Re:Ask HN: Is anyone else just tired of JavaScript? by williamxd3 on Thursday May 24, 2018 @12:07AM (#17141012)

wounder if people would still complain

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Re:Ask HN: Is anyone else just tired of JavaScript? by harel on Thursday May 24, 2018 @04:57AM (#17142263)

Of course they would. About the same things, in the same way.

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