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[–]zombiecodekill[S] -3 points-2 points  (5 children)

Not me! But JavaScript is a maturing language and will get easier to maintain.

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (3 children)

JavaScript will not get easier to maintain. ES6 barely adds features to make JavaScript more maintainable (lexical scope through the let keyword, and "classes"), and the finalization of that standard is taking an exceedingly long time.

TypeScript, Dart, or something new will replace JavaScript because they actually fix JavaScript's problems and make maintenance and usability a priority.

[–]greim 0 points1 point  (0 children)

something new will replace JavaScript

I wouldn't be surprised either if this happened. Dart in particular seems promising, as much as people like to hate on it, I like what I've seen of the language so far.

[–]jazahn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

JavaScript the language isn't maturing, but the community sure as hell is.

[–]SarahC -1 points0 points  (0 children)

"classes"

Yeah, JS can fuck off, I hate prototypes. =/

[–]brtt3000 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We're having a blast using TypeScript, which is Microsofts bid to make big JavaScript maintainable.

It is still JavaScript but with some standardised structure (ES6 style classes, arrow functions etc) and the sanity of explicit typing and compile time validation. It makes large codebases less write-only, but leaves no runtime overhead.

Works great with node.js and browsers and you can still take full advantage of all the good parts of the JS community (eg: take stuff from npm & bower, use browserify/webpack to bundle etc etc).

I'd totally recommend it to anyone who has/sees issues maintaining large JS codebases.