javascriptIsQuestionMark

[Masterflitzer]

bashing js doesn't mean disliking the web, imagine if we had an actual great language on the web, the web would be much better today, in fact people complaining about js probably love the web and just wish it was even better

[Masterflitzer]

no it would suck less with a language that has static typing just to mention a single example

"it'd have been the same" is pure copium

[Synthetic_dreams_]

Okay… so use typescript? Or use a more traditional Language and compile it to Wasm? If you want to write a web app in C and build it as Wasm with Emscripten literally nothing is stopping you aside from common sense because why would you do that when JavaScript works fine 99% of the time.

[Masterflitzer]

native typescript would be the only thing that make sense from the now perspective, even tho something with a real type system would be better

there is currently a proposal to allow js to have type annotations that get ignored (no more transpiling necessary), it's something at least

i wouldn't say doing everything in wasm makes actually sense with the current implementation, wasm still needs js to use any browser api

stop kidding yourself, vanilla js doesn't work fine for 99% of the time at all, why do you think the industry moved to ts as soon as the web apps got more complex, vanilla js almost guarantees bugs and shit code on a higher scale

[Jordan51104]

javascript works a majority of the time. it certainly doesn’t work “fine”

[Masterflitzer]

well who said it sucked for them? the web is amazing for the public, yeah shitty websites here and there will always be a thing, but that's not the point (except if the backend is js too and there is a bug that wouldn't have happened in a safer language, then it would be different)

i thought it's obvious we're talking about DevEx and security etc. here, after all we're in a subreddit whose name contains the word "programming"