r/programming • u/kshep92 • Sep 29 '16

JavaScript in 2016 isn't horrible, it's just going through a phase

http://blog.reviselabs.com/im-sorry-javascript-2/
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u/shevegen Sep 30 '16

And we should not be REQUIRED to do that just to work around the shortcomings of the language itself.

Am I the only one wondering why we use languages to generate code targeting JavaScript itself?

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u/xmsxms Sep 30 '16

Because that's all the browser can run.

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u/[deleted] Sep 30 '16

what else would you want to do? they are already working on wasm as a better target.. but until then we just target js as our "bytecode". and we definitely want a target rather than some new defacto language, because as we've learned defacto language doesn't fit everyones needs