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The JavaScript Juggernaut Rolls On

Posted by Soulskill on from the building-tools-to-build-more-tools dept.

JThaddeus writes "An article in TechWorld Australia summarizes the latest opinions on JavaScript from ThoughtWorks: 'There is no end in sight to the rise of JavaScript... "I think JavaScript has been seen as a serious language for the last two or three years; I think now increasingly we're seeing JavaScript as a platform," said Sam Newman, ThoughtWorks' Global Innovation Lead.' The article touches on new additions to JavaScript tools, techniques, and languages built on JavaScript. As the fuller report (PDF) says, 'The ecosystem around JavaScript as a serious application platform continues to evolve. Many interesting new tools for testing, building, and managing dependencies in both server- and client-side JavaScript applications have emerged recently.'"

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  1. Re:Peak "platform" by wonkey_monkey · · Score: 3, Funny

    Would you like some toast?

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  2. Re:Peak "platform" by hey! · · Score: 3, Funny

    And once we've done in "platform", we can start the campaign against "system". By the time we're done engineers will only be able to talk about software using mime.

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  3. Replusive by gweihir · · Score: 3, Funny

    Why do the worst technologies that are just barely able to solve the problem always make it? Is the developer community collectively really this stupid? I fear it is...

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  4. I has a sad by Snotnose · · Score: 4, Funny

    In my 35 years of professional programming, getting good at dozens of languages, I've only run across 2 I've actively disliked. Javascript is one of them (tcl was the other). JS is a crap language that IMHO can't be fixed. If they ever add an honest garbage collector to the base language then most programs will delete themselves upon execution.

  5. Re:Peak "platform" by Lumpio- · · Score: 4, Funny

    We could also add "service". SPaaS - Solution Platform as a Service.

  6. Re:The hipsters need to go. Now. by Billly+Gates · · Score: 3, Funny

    But Node.js invented threading and is a webscale and a rockstar language!! non blocking async/IO was invented by javascript. I can get code and can piece it together in parts and run it in parallel. Amazing this was never invented before.

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  7. Re: SubjectsInCommentsAreStupid by Joce640k · · Score: 1, Funny

    Experienced engineers wil indeed be able to properly use thread-shared state.

    True, but we're talking about Javascript programmers.

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