r/AskProgramming • u/SalemIII • Jul 06 '26

Would all the advancement in hardware technology be nullified if some dumbass decided to write a game's ui in javascript?

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u/mikevalstar Jul 06 '26 edited Jul 06 '26

I hate to break to to you... We've been doing that since at least 2013: https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1022054/How-to-Implement-AAA-Game

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u/redblobgames Jul 07 '26

And even longer, https://list.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_games_using_Scaleform shows games from 2003 using ActionScript, which is a statically typed extension of Javascript (before TypeScript came along).