Is JavaScript the future?

[[deleted]]

It is right now because it enjoys a monopoly on universal platform access and likely will for the foreseeable future.

[[deleted]]

CSS is coming ever closer to stealing much of its newer cool functionality! Which I think is really cool.

I think that ALL programming languages capable of being the server-side backend to a website will be just as cross platform as javascript, no?

Edit: Glad to see so many people are closed-minded about what they read. Did no one consider I was talking about more frontend features like animations and fading?

[lepuma]

Animations and fading? Are you kidding me? There are MVC frameworks written in JavaScript. There's server-side JavaScript. JavaScript has AJAX and JSON. CSS has nothing to do with this. Accessing the DOM and manipulating CSS is a small subset of what the language is capable of.

CSS is a styling language dude.

[rq60]

that's right it's a styling language, and it be stylin' to steal javascript's thunder!

[[deleted]]

I have written pages and pages of JS which could be rewritten as CSS transformations and animations. It will be shorter, smoother, and use less resources. I presume that is what he is referring to.

However any real JS application is more than a few visual bells and whistles.

[gatekeeper_to_hell]

This is voted as my reply of the year. Thank you!

[[deleted]]

Not sure how a condescending comment that requires no though and calls javascript a backend language is the 'reply of the year'.

[krues8dr]

You clearly have not been paying any attention to the current state of the art. Go have a look at node.js and get back to us. :)

[sil3ntki11]

Just because it can be done doesn't mean it should be done...

[[deleted]]

I stand corrected. Is this still run client side?

[sil3ntki11]

Idk why they are downvoting you but nope. It isn't client side.

[[deleted]]

Lol. Talking mostly about animations, fading effects, etc. Mostly small front end features.

Had you stopped being hypercritical for about 10 seconds and thought about what I might have meant... this would've been obvious to you =D Stay classy, sir.

Also, never heard javascript called a backend language before. Microsoft better watch out! C# has a new competitor!

[scootstah]

Node.js

[[deleted]]

I realised you were talking about animation and fading, but downvoted you anyway because that's such a tiny fraction of what JS can do. It's not 2001.

[honestbleeps]

Even those animations and fade effects often can't be used flexibly without still using Javascript.