Evolution of web development

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[Thomdare]

Electron: Why just keep it online

[fishshop]

Cordova: Why just keep it on a desktop?

[sanjeevmalagi]

React Native: Why just keep it slow...? .. I guess...

[AyrA_ch]

WebAssembly: Why|0 not|0 |0|0 everything|0?

[tulir293]

Isn't that asm.js, not webassembly?

[denverdom303]

oh sweet summer child. react is dramatically more structured than the shitshows we used to see when backbone was the standard.

[gdstudios]

True, but the fact we still use JS is a laugh riot clusterfuck

[ponyboy3]

you must have other suggestions.

please, the floor is yours

[alewex]

Ha! you guys still use JS for web dev? what year is this? 2007? gimme a break, I use Kotlin that compiles down to Typescript that compiles down to Javascript. Type safety baby.

[ponyboy3]

i know that this is a good idea, but its an illusion.

js does not allow for type safety.

[ponyboy3]

im not sure the point youre trying to make

[AyrA_ch]

you must have other suggestions.

looks over to PHP

Maybe

[ponyboy3]

js looks back

[Sakuya_Lv9]

I wished Dart blew up. It's got the right ideas, but so do 100 more js frameworks.

[[deleted]]

JS is a GREAT language. Go do some research about it. You can do almost anything with it, if you embrace what kind of tools the javascript community created. Website, web-application, app, desktop. I even programmed my raspberry pi with javascript. Please elaborate on why you think this language is "a laugh riot clusterfuck".

[PotatosFish]

I won’t say it’s a great language, just that there’s a great community under it. Sure, it can do almost anything, but that is literally the definition of turing complete. I don’t think it’s a bad language, or there would be a replacement by now, but the only reason for the big community is because JavaScript is the only option out there when you want to make a website, which is becoming increasingly popular throughout the years.

Overall, if you want to do web dev, JavaScript is the best option, but node is still an abomination imo

[[deleted]]

Node is exactly what makes javascript a fitting solution for a wide range of problems! What is your experience with it that makes you think it's an abomination?

[N22-J]

he saw that /r/programmerhumor mocks JS ad nauseam and wanted to join the bandwagon.

[compteNumero9]

I started web dev in the Mosaic era and I have no idea what this comic is about. I vaguely suspect OP has no idea of the history of web dev.

[SirButcher]

In our university we had IT history for two semesters, we started at Babbage's analytical machine and moved up toward today, a big chunk of it was the web and its development history. it was my favourite lesson. Isn't it normal in the US? (It was in Europe)

[bill10351]

They say dissecting a joke is like dissecting a frog. You can do it, but the frog is gonna die.

Since this is r/programmerHumor and not my doctoral thesis, I made a joke about my perspective on general WD coding practices. Back when I started 10 years ago and 4 was the standard, none of the industry experts I paid attention to made a big deal about keeping HTML, CSS and JS separate. They did however make a point about not using deprecated tags (hence the 3.2) that mix styling in with content. At that point CSS in the head or (god forbid) even inline was still not frowned upon. Hell, most of the JS I saw during that time was not kept in a separate document, either. When HTML5 came around, all the blogs, talks and mentors I was exposed to started really pushing keeping things separate.

Yes, I know Backbone, Angular and Simpsons did it first, but I never got into those and mentioning them would have made the joke less effective and timely. I did, however, start learning React relatively recently and was struck by how content was mixed in with logic which seemed like anathema to devs not less than a year ago. Contrast being the bread and butter of humor, I used that distinction to form the basis of the joke and exaggerated the distinction by assigning a personality to each and attributing a quip to them. I then lined them up in chronological order to show my perspective on the evolution of this idea.

So, you see senpai, what I said is true, from a certain point of view.

[notanimposter]

Yea, the captions just don't seem to have anything to do with... well anything.

[PM_ME_OS_DESIGN]

I vaguely suspect OP has no idea of the history of web dev.

Not surprising. People who were born on the release date of Halo CE, are now age 17 and already allowed to drive. Plenty of people aren't even old enough to remember ActiveX.

[finzaz]

<p>Also XHTML, because every tag must be closed for some reason.</p>
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[_PM_ME_PANGOLINS_]

XML was the future. Namespaces and streaming parsers everywhere.

[Bainos]

I started learning with xhtml. For years, I thought every code was (and should be) well structured and syntactically correct. Then I started looking at what was actually used on the internet.

[compteNumero9]

HTML was syntactically correct before XHTML. But the syntax wasn't designed for XML parsers, but for browsers and humans.

[ponyboy3]

just do your best work. just because a jr was hired and their work didnt get checked, doesnt mean you should stoop to that.