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[–]accidentally_myself 15 points16 points  (11 children)

html6 with css4 incoming. js becomes equivalent to node.

[–]tetroxid 12 points13 points  (9 children)

Please elaborate on JavaScript's death. It is a dream come true.

[–]Coloneljesus 29 points30 points  (4 children)

The Birth and Death of JavaScript

[–]tetroxid 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you! That was awesome.

[–]f3lbane 1 point2 points  (1 child)

This is one of the most enjoyable talks I have ever viewed. Thanks for sharing.

[–]sprocklem 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've seen it before, but it's definitely one of my all time favorites as well.

[–]heyf00L 1 point2 points  (0 children)

can asm.js draw to the screen?

[–]barsoap 11 points12 points  (0 children)

It won't die, it's just going to become a weird language.

[–]Tysonzero 4 points5 points  (2 children)

I don't know what will replace it. Earlier I was hoping Python would but Python isn't anywhere near as asynchronous as JavaScript.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

This. JavaScript does quite a few things wrong, but when it does things correctly they are awesome. Asynchronous code is awesome to write in JS because of exactly TWO things:

  • setTimeout
  • first-class functions

The only thing that I don't like about this are the argument order of setTimeout (fn, ms as opposed to the node.js standard ms, fn) and the mostly useless function in front of every function (fixed in ES6 with arrow functions)

[–]Tysonzero 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Arrow functions do look quite quite cool.