ActionScript, Emscripten, Dart, WebAssembly... All things that perform better and are often better to use than JavaScript (and TypeScript) and the dumb masses chose the crap we have now.
Let's face it. People benefit from complexity and poorly performing apps. Not just for the web, look at video game engines too.
When hardware gets faster and cheaper, people tend to say "meh" to quality and performance concerns. That part gets easier, but that's the slippery slope that introduces poor quality and complexity - especially when pressured top down by companies to go faster.
Basically the need for, forget about reward in, quality is completely removed.
So congratulations Internet. We have most web apps powered by a language spec dreamt up in a weekend. With patches on top of patches and abstraction on top of abstraction since.
It's been great job security of course... gatekeeping and all...but I don't know. I kinda hope AI does come and just replaces it all or something.
Man I wanted to use WebAssembly more. For Dart I made a Photoshop PSD to JPG converter that was super fast too. Much faster than any JavaScript image convert and resize was. Bummer.
Let's face it. People benefit from complexity and poorly performing apps. Not just for the web, look at video game engines too.
When hardware gets faster and cheaper, people tend to say "meh" to quality and performance concerns. That part gets easier, but that's the slippery slope that introduces poor quality and complexity - especially when pressured top down by companies to go faster.
Basically the need for, forget about reward in, quality is completely removed.
So congratulations Internet. We have most web apps powered by a language spec dreamt up in a weekend. With patches on top of patches and abstraction on top of abstraction since.
It's been great job security of course... gatekeeping and all...but I don't know. I kinda hope AI does come and just replaces it all or something.
Man I wanted to use WebAssembly more. For Dart I made a Photoshop PSD to JPG converter that was super fast too. Much faster than any JavaScript image convert and resize was. Bummer.