Re:Office 365 is being completely rewritten in JavaScript
by cirgue on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @09:30AM
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I will abandon my skepticism of JavaScript as soon as JavaScript boosters abandon their infomercialesque “millions of people can’t be wrong!” attitude and make a compelling case for the language itself. JavaScript is all we have for web dev which is why it’s so popular. That doesn’t mean it isn’t a fundamentally flawed language, it just means that no one has been able to popularize better solutions because of network effects.
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Re:Office 365 is being completely rewritten in JavaScript
by titanix2 on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @09:38AM
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JavaScript is so good Microsoft created Typescript to avoid dealing with it directly. (edit: wrong parent)
Re:Office 365 is being completely rewritten in JavaScript
by htor on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @09:45AM
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the millions are not saying it's perfect. that would be wrong. as you say what we have is js, so let's move on and make something useful with it instead of complaining about it being flawed. it is evolving, being standardized and getting new features. its not going to go away anytime soon, so instead educate yourself into avoid the pitfalls that exist in the language and have fun being productive.
Re:Office 365 is being completely rewritten in JavaScript
by kozhevnikov on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @09:40AM
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What is the fundamental flaw in JavaScript language?