Today’s Javascript, from an outsider’s perspective

Re:Today’s Javascript, from an outsider’s perspective by fit2rule on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @03:40AM (#23308415)

20 years later, I can still write an SDL app using just the SDL repo and my C compiler, with GL features and all the other bells and whistles that made me choose SDL in the first place. Its there, it builds, it runs.

There isn't a single Javascript project I've done in the last 10 years that I can return to and run again - they've all been borked by the eco-system. I dread the idea of even opening a package.json file to see what's wrong...

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Re:Today’s Javascript, from an outsider’s perspective by Gibbon1 on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @04:44AM (#23308722)

Couple of weeks ago had a customer cross compile a project written in C. That was last compiled 8 years ago. Compiled perfectly with gcc 9.2

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Re:Today’s Javascript, from an outsider’s perspective by ptx on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @05:13PM (#23316462)

Try targeting Windows Script Host (i.e. cscript.exe) for your next project - it's still there and mostly unchanged since Windows 98. :)

The language supported is ECMAScript 3 with some minor COM-related quirks, but with a few utility functions it's not too bad for simple scripts.

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