Re:Blessed Are the JavaScript Developers
by danShumway on Monday August 31, 2020 @07:48PM
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> No, the problem is that JavaScript has not been replaced by something better before now.
I suspect replacing Javascript was an out-of-scope task for the people trying to design a `sort` function.
> and backwards compatibility requirements prevent
WASM will work just fine without breaking existing websites. People can hate on Javascript all they want, but "don't break the web" is a good policy that we should be encouraging in most cases. If anything, there's been a kind of harmful trend from browsers like Chrome in the opposite direction, and I think it's bad for the web to make it into a less stable platform.
I suspect replacing Javascript was an out-of-scope task for the people trying to design a `sort` function.
> and backwards compatibility requirements prevent
WASM will work just fine without breaking existing websites. People can hate on Javascript all they want, but "don't break the web" is a good policy that we should be encouraging in most cases. If anything, there's been a kind of harmful trend from browsers like Chrome in the opposite direction, and I think it's bad for the web to make it into a less stable platform.