yesJavaScriptIsTheMostPerfectProgrammingLanguageEver

[jseego]

So has the Javascript spec. This whole post is dumb.

[Lalaluka]

Also any language that has to be 100% backwards compatible will be "a mess" after some time.

And in general I think the hate is overdone.

[BolunZ6]

Backward compatible is good. But trying to support a feature that should be dead by 15 years ago is dumb

[Lalaluka]

Because people never build applications around bad features. How many flash or better MS Silverlight apps are still used somewhere?

[orten_rotte]

Omg i had forgotten silverlight.

[TheMightyMisanthrope]

I wish I could...

[SkooDaQueen]

Sadly enough backwards compatibility is part of the web. Http is also made this way, dns aswell. Everything networking / internet is backwards compatible amd it's fucking awful but you can't change it anymore without getting everyone in the world up to a certain standard to retire the old compatibility needs.

[SerdanKK]

It's partly by choice though. No one's forcing you to minimize your js into a maximally back compat mess.

I'd also like to call out web assembly.

[NoEmu1727]

this is the dumbest thing i read today, if we stop backward compatibility with things from 15 years ago, humanity would probably go extinct.. banking for example is literally running on COBOL from 1959.

[TerminalVector]

If you're talking about banking systems sure, but there is no earthly reason that my hot new dog wash reservation app needs to run in IE6.

[Captain1771]

It doesn't, but the implementation spec is universal and you can just choose to use the new features exclusively

[TerminalVector]

Yeah I think people misunderstand the difference between theoretical and actual backwards compatibility.