It’s a two minute video
He also wrote the best book for JavaScript, JavaScript: The Good Parts.
JS is pretty bad, but it’s so ubiquitous now that I don’t know if anyone can create a replacement with enough traction for one of the big browsers to start supporting it.
I think it’d be possible to create a replacement, assuming you’re a large company that ships your own browser (not naming names…). If you have enough market share/“killer apps” then it might be adopted (maybe?).
Now, ditching JS is a whole nother ballgame, and yeah, I don’t see that happening any time soon!
Web assembly is catching on, which can theoretically be compiled from any language.
It’s not exactly the same, since you’re not dealing with the classic Layout+Style+Behavior model of HTML, CSS, and JS, but it’s becoming pretty powerful and a few UI frameworks already support it.
This is typical human behaviour. Build something shit that kind of works. Tell everyone about it and get them to use it. Encounter externalities, scaling issues, etc. Apply bandaid. Achieve critical mass. Oops, too big to fail / sunk cost is too great to switch.
Stuck with it now.exe
Dude’s right about javascript. For his talk about OSes and other languages… I dunno, I think progress is happening there even though he acts like it’s not. Rust is picking up steam, on linux at least. OS progress is hard to gauge in the Windowsphere though, especially with MS mostly progressing the malware aspects these days.
What happened to Dart?
Always love blaming the tool instead of the hands that use it