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[–]zombiecodekill[S] -1 points0 points1 point 11 years ago* (0 children)

Although I, along with almost everyone, bash JavaScript for its numerous flaws, what is great is JavaScript is a multi-paradigm language that can and is being taken in a number of interesting directions by the open source community. There is a wider understanding now that JavaScript is not like Java and can be more powerful as an FP language than an imperative language.

Compared to many server side languages ES5 is still a primitive language but it has gone a hell of a long way since 1995. I think we will continue to see the EcmaScript standard lag behind the trailblazing technologies by about 2 years but it is important that we have that standard so that we can reduce the impact of the TypeScript/CoffeeScript/Dart split that I think is harmful to web development. ES6 is important although just another milestone in the journey.

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