I think it’s only popular among us. Out there in the industry there are tons of developers who attended a three months training course then landed a job in big tech corps. None of them or the language itself cares about efficiency. Something that works before they move on is good enough.
Because its the only language in browsers so it’s ubiquitous, and it’s elegant and cost effective (note i didn’t say it’s a good idea) to use the same language on back-end and front-end.
Webassembly is a thing, and it’s only a matter of time before Google or Microsoft ship either a dotnet runtine or a go interpreter or some other FOSS shippable component as a chromium plugin or something.
Popular opinion, downvoted.
I think it’s only popular among us. Out there in the industry there are tons of developers who attended a three months training course then landed a job in big tech corps. None of them or the language itself cares about efficiency. Something that works before they move on is good enough.
Yea this is a classic “I agree with this, so it must be popular”.
If it’s popular then why does it still exist and applications today are still being built using it?
Because its the only language in browsers so it’s ubiquitous, and it’s elegant and cost effective (note i didn’t say it’s a good idea) to use the same language on back-end and front-end.
Webassembly is a thing, and it’s only a matter of time before Google or Microsoft ship either a dotnet runtine or a go interpreter or some other FOSS shippable component as a chromium plugin or something.
Inertia is powerful though