Re:Future JavaScript: what is still missing?
by userbinator on Sunday January 27, 2019 @02:46PM
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It reminds me a lot of what happened with C++ in the past few years, and in contrast to C which has basically stayed still meanwhile (I know there's C99 and C11, but a lot of code out there is still C89 --- and IMHO that's the way it should be.)
I am very much against constant change in a fundamental platform. I should be able to write JS that works for decades without worrying about deprecation or any other sort of useless "churn". The less the platform changes, the more you can focus on understanding it and doing more. But of course it seems the majority of developers would rather have "new and shiny" over "old and stable", which I think is quite unfortunate.
The old saying is "do more with less". What's happening now in development, especially Web, seems to be more like "do less with more".
I am very much against constant change in a fundamental platform. I should be able to write JS that works for decades without worrying about deprecation or any other sort of useless "churn". The less the platform changes, the more you can focus on understanding it and doing more. But of course it seems the majority of developers would rather have "new and shiny" over "old and stable", which I think is quite unfortunate.
The old saying is "do more with less". What's happening now in development, especially Web, seems to be more like "do less with more".