Thirty years later, JavaScript is the glue that holds the interactive web together, warts and all.

As someone who has been in Internet, e-commerce and the all around development of the web almost since its inception, this article makes me feel very, very old.

  • jaykrown@lemmy.worldEnglish
    62·
    11 hours ago

    I’ve started using raw JavaScript in all my projects. There’s something about not relying on any libraries that makes it feel so much more powerful. The best AI models are very good at writing raw JavaScript, meaning you can easily create your own single page application structure. All I want are single page web applications using pure HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

  • jimmy90@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    21 hours ago

    you know what eich also did?

    he funded/staffed/managed/supported another language into life

    the language that’s going to save computing for humanity

    RUST

    redemption arc complete

    • Glitchvid@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      19 hours ago

      Well he’s also got some disagreeable political opinions, so I dunno about redemption.

      The success of Rust can be laid at the feet of many people, but critically Graydon Hoare — He wrote an article a couple years ago about his stewardship, and it’s been something I go back to frequently. Just reading you get a sense of the immense intelligence, maturity, and sensitivity he possess, and imbued the project with.

      https://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/307291.html

    • pivot_root@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      24 hours ago

      And native software.

      Because JavaScript runs everywhere, we have companies creating “apps” and PC “programs” that are little more than glorified web views. There’s normally nothing wrong with having shared code across implementations, but when that shared code is a 4 MB bundle of crap that creates 100s of MB in dictionaries and JIT compiler caches, you’re ruining the end-user experience.

  • watson@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 day ago

    I know what you mean, buddy. I remember when Netscape navigator was a new and amazing piece of software. All I’d ever used before that was NCSA Mosaic.