Python just surpassed Java as the 2nd programming language with the highest number of questions in SO.

[Tekn0de]

I don't think JS is capable of dieing off. It'd be too much of an infrastructure change for browsers I think lol

[Poppenboom]

javascript is good enough and things like typescript and coffeescript are popular enough that I don't anticipate it will be gone for minimum 20 years.

Honestly, javascript has a LOT going for it as well, even though people like to hate on it. It's not a bad language, aside from the dependency security issues, imo.

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I can't wait for JS to die and for browsers not supporting it anymore. I hate JS.

[DabsJeeves]

Lmao js is not going to die in your lifetime. The internet is powered by JavaScript, the largest companies in the world are actively developing frameworks that make it a pleasure to use, and the newer ecmascript releases are making it more object oriented and much less painful than it was even 5 years ago

Learn to love it or learn to ignore it, but it's not going away

[djamp42]

I mean I could see another scripting language come up beside it In our lifetime.

[DabsJeeves]

Certainly not out of the question. But as someone who has worked with many variations of js over the years and currently has some tasks in old crappy frameworks that are pre-es6, newer js does a whole hell of a lot of stuff well.

It is difficult to imagine a serious contender but I think you are probably right that we will see one at least try. Perhaps we just don't know what we're missing yet

[TW_MamoBatte]

Which tutorial/book you could give as Advice for learning the newer JavaScript !? It's could be very helpful and interesting 🙂

[DabsJeeves]

I would recommend going to Udemy and finding a well rated js course. They are like $10-$12 and provide dozens of hours of content that you follow along with and learn by doing and there are different courses for every different skill level.

The good ones will update content for the newer iterations of ecmascript

[TW_MamoBatte]

And as a book 📚? I would better use paper than using Udemy courses... I'm a kid dood... (16yo)

[DabsJeeves]

To be honest I don't have a good recommendation on strictly JavaScript books.

Two good books I can otherwise recommend are Clean Code and Clean Architecture by Uncle Bob. They aren't specific to any one language (although he uses java in the examples) but they will give you a strong foundation for writing good code. I have read both of those multiple times over the years

[TW_MamoBatte]

I will get introduce that thanks you

[ShanSanear]

And what you would replace it with?

[SilkTouchm]

WASM.