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We should all just decide on JavaScript and solve interesting problems instead

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Meh.

We should all just decide on PHP and solve interesting problems instead.

We should all just decide on Fortran and solve interesting problems instead.

We should all just decide on perfocards and solve interesting problems instead.

We should all just decide on slide rulers [1] and solve interesting problems instead.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slide_rule

Let me put it like this then: do you feel that we have, in the programming language space, uncovered fantastic new ways of enriching humanity since PHP?

Yes, the growth in the webspace can be partly attributable to programming being more stable, more accessible to beginners. Do you think the hard part of any programming/engineering project is learning a new language?

Yes, not disagreeing with you there.

And no, I don't think so.

I can't figure out a point to this conversation other than the pure link-bait and troll value.

Let me assure you that I am very serious about this, I did not write it just to get a spike in visitors to my site. I have no ads on my site, more visitors don't make much of a difference to me other than spreading the word and getting more people to challenge me.

Well, considering javascript is exclusively single-threaded in a time where multi-core is becoming the exclusive means by which processors are scaling, it would be the one of the worst possible languages to converge upon.

Wide use of JavaScript which we are talking about started in attempt to enrich web platform. Otherwise we would be just using PHP for web and that's it.

Yes, and I'm not advocating for us choosing one language for all eternity. If Mandarin or Hausa become the next de facto business languages in the area I live in, I'd learn them.

But javascript has serious flaws. It doesn't have static typing, advance language functionality like namespaces and generics were afterthoughts, and it was a half-baked language. The original language was supposed to be more FP.

I'd rather support lua, c# or python being a better alternative.

>We have the chance of running the same language on the front-end and the back-end

yeah, I can't wait for a fully fledged webserver written in JS

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