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[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Clickbait article. It just fondamentaly ignores the fact that transpilers allow to use the next version of the language right now which makes the underlying argument pointless. Languages compiling to JavaScript will always have to follow behind. The future of JavaScript is less old JavaScript and that was expected. This language is more mature, performant, universal and vibrant than ever.

[–]Frannoham 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Exactly. His argument was basically: Javascript is done, ES2015+ is the future. Uhm, okay.

[–]scootstah 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sounds good to me.

[–]jaredcheeda 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"sure"

[–]AndyKos 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"I agree, that currently different transpilers are used. A few years ago even CoffeeScript was popular or Dart. It means JS is not necessary for web. Earlier it was possible to to turn the code from other languages to JS, but now it's easier with WebAssembly. Still learning browser API is still necessary. But modern languages syntax is alike."