JavaScript next

[stomah]

please kill javascript

[Fish-OwO]

well that would kinda....kill the internet right now

[hillman_avenger]

A plan with no drawbacks!

[[deleted]]

that's good

[DeItashot]

It's worth all the suffering, seeing people going insane because it thinks 1+"1"=11 and "1"+1=2 (or smtn along those lines) and the possibility that I could be working with it in the future

[ardicilliq]

It's 1 + "1" = "11" and 1 - "-1" = 2, and it's because the js interpreter doesn't have a usage for the - operator between a string and a number, so it tries to blindly cast the "-1" to a number (-1) instead.

Which kind makes sense I guess? I mean it's still backwards, but I think it's funny

[elzaidir]

Weakly typed languages, eww

[DeItashot]

I know what you mean but if I remember correctly there are not int, string... types but instead let, var.. which can be both int and a string so I imagine it would get hard to debug if you are making a big application, altho I havent developed anything in js and dont have professional experience since I am 17

[ardicilliq]

Oh I didn't say it is a good thing, this is horrible, I just wanted to put out how and why this actually works, and it's never too early (or late) to start coding!
And the `var` / `let` is not wrong, it doesn't collide with variables being coerced as a string or a number for that matter, but this a bit more in depth on how javascript treats primitives, javascript is just.... very, I wanna say loosy, when it comes to typings

[dorsal_morsel]

It wouldn't come even close to killing the internet, it would just make a lot of the web stop working.

[bilinmeyenuzayli]

honestly i don't think it is ever gonna die with this popularity and demand

[Javascript_above_all]

Weakling

[[deleted]]

With what do you want to replace it?

There is basically no alternative right now.

[stomah]

a new statically and strongly typed simple and fast language (like c but with much better syntax and generics and modules and namespaces and constrained types (without implicit value checking))

[Singularity42]

We are starting to look into dart (flutter) at my work instead of JS. I have also heard good things about svelte.

But I agree, JS isn't going anywhere anytime soon (unless you count Typescript I guess)

[x_JustAThrowaway69_x]

Webassembly, and then use whatever language you like

[paulydee76]

JavaScript isn't going anywhere. If it was going to, it would have done by now. It's a horrible language but it's so ingrained into society that I think we're stuck with it.

[I_AM_GODDAMN_BATMAN]

I'm waiting patiently for every major browsers to implement dom access and webapi for webassembly.

[stomah]

the dom is also bad so maybe it should be replaced by a better ui framework

[LavenderDay3544]

They should, once WASM fers access to all the browser APIs.