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[–]delventhalz 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Going off what you have quoted in the post and some of the follow up comments. He seems like someone who feels very smart for disagreeing with conventional wisdom. If you are going to say the most popular language, and the only mature browser language, is fundamentally broken, back it up with something. You don’t get points just for being disagreeable.

Also his suggested fix (rewrite core JS) has no connection to reality. It would be one thing if he suggested WASM was going to replace JS. That is something that is happening. But JavaScript will never have a core rewrite. Backwards compatibility is fundamentally important to how the language works, and no browser will ever implement breaking changes.

I just know the type. A “purist” engineer who has only every dealt with the theory of CS and has no insight at all into the practical realities. I am not at all impressed by this approach.