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The whole Javascript ecosystem needs to be burned to the ground and never spoken of ever again.
The whole Javascript ecosystem needs to be burned to the ground and never spoken of ever again.
Also, that reaction is so widespread at this point, it's become boring to hear it. It's a lot more interesting figuring out how the JS ecosystem has been resilient and has not gone down the drain (unlike a lot more "critically" acclaimed languages like Lisp)
You could argue there is a lot more economic incentive to use JS to to the sheer number of jobs, but no one is being forced.
When things were not settled like they are today, Microsoft IE supported multiple languages and many people were using VBscript because it made more sense than JavaScript at the time.
Also, many new languages that transpile to JavaScript exist, because, well, for many people JS simply sucks.
I hear TypeScript is pretty big in that space.
Who knows if JS will survive WASM that promise to free programmers from having to use a single language to write web apps.
The weird thing to me is that the two main customers or consumers of front-end programming (publishers and users) never see and do not care about the underlying language or implementation! Businesses and other orgs (schools, NGOs, etc.) as well as individuals (FB users, WordPress blogs, etc.) that publish sites/apps on the web and their visitors and users never see under the hood except when something goes wrong or they deliberately click "View Source", eh?
Ergo, all this whole Javascript ecosystem is solely for the developers. It's like a giant and largely irrelevant MMORG that we play that produces mostly-working websites and apps almost as a side effect.
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