I'm not sure I can really appreciate another rant about how one language, framework, pre–compiler, VM, etc is terrible and everyone should stop using it.
Javascript's popularity has emerged organically. Its not because it has the best design. Its because it can get the job done and is browser based–and now server-side too. The browser is the next OS, the ultimate VM, if you will.
If you just stop picking at it and appreciate it for what it is...it is f'ing awesome.
It's operating a defacto monopoly on a layer of the modern development stack. This does not make it "f'ing awesome".
People rant about JS not because it's shit, per se. Everybody knows that. They rant because they long for better languages that are available across all web browsers.
I would like to see a standardised CLR-style VM that allows language modules to be loaded as requested by a particular web page. Otherwise we'll just be replacing JS with what will probably be another old fashioned imperative language (see: Rust). We don't want that. We want freedom to use whatever language we want.
Then don't use Javascript.
I'm not sure I can really appreciate another rant about how one language, framework, pre–compiler, VM, etc is terrible and everyone should stop using it.
Javascript's popularity has emerged organically. Its not because it has the best design. Its because it can get the job done and is browser based–and now server-side too. The browser is the next OS, the ultimate VM, if you will.
If you just stop picking at it and appreciate it for what it is...it is f'ing awesome.