What's mindboggling to me is that when HTML5 came out people were swearing Flash (and Java applets) would be obsolete. Years later the replacement has been the most horrid spaghetti imaginable because no matter what framework or engine you use, it's going to become HTML+JS!
They should just start supporting Java in the browser again. Java. Javascript. Nobody is even going to notice.
I can't find the Wayback Machine address, but I was going to link to one of the redacted Jerkcity comics where "Johnny from Arkansas" asks the exact question and Rands is happy to help the "American Taliban." Its title was something like "Clean the Dead Moose out of Panel 1"
I always thought it would be neat if python had been used instead of JavaScript.
I have written web apps in c++ (wt framework) and it’s really neat to be able to leverage c/c++ libs we already had, which was what tipped the scales in choosing it.
No it’s not the bees knees, but I can be productive, and new folks can jump on board and also be productive, very quickly.
I love python, but I don't think Python is the solution to Javascript. I mean, Python is much better than Javascript, but Python's type hints are much worse than Typescript. A modern language needs to be something like Java, but with null types.
What actually needs to happen is for wasm to get good enough that everything else is just implemented on top of it. Not that it'll save us from the flame wars over which language is better to compile to wasm, but at least you could actually pick your poison then...
What's mindboggling to me is that when HTML5 came out people were swearing Flash (and Java applets) would be obsolete. Years later the replacement has been the most horrid spaghetti imaginable because no matter what framework or engine you use, it's going to become HTML+JS!
They should just start supporting Java in the browser again. Java. Javascript. Nobody is even going to notice.