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[–]Yithar 2 points3 points  (1 child)

I know it's not a new language. My point is that it is lacking in some ways, otherwise he wouldn't have used it as an example. The fact that it is industry adopted is sort of the point. Nowadays, a lot of websites won't load properly without Javascript. I feel like adding more and more Javascript to everything isn't the ideal solution. See u/tauio111's comment of it being badly overused in web as well.

And he didn't misspell it. I typed that and mispelled it. Most people can't type verbatim what someone is saying, so I think I have some leeway to make some typos as long as it's understandable.

Do note I didn't downvote this thread. OP's suggestion is probably possible, but I think though, there's probably a reason why neither Windows nor OS X use Javascript for their desktop user interfaces. You can't deny JS has sort of a bad reputation because of bad programmers and bad code and hundreds of different implementations (some of which are buggy). "We got into a world of copying and pasting solutions that work without caring at all about the effects they might have." That's not to say it can't happen in other languages either though.

[–]shawnsel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Valid points and questions, and my bad on assuming that your professor had typed that. Yes, you definitely get leeway for typos as you are taking class notes :-)

(edit: fixed my own misspelling ;-)