Javascript the most important language? Give me a break. It has all but RUINED the web.
In the late-90s and early 2000s, lots of good, talented and forward thinking folks were trying their darndest to get behind the web standards movement and encourage everyone to create semantic web pages that loaded quickly, looked great and were perfectly functional.
But Javascript is like the worst aspects of capitalism. Or handguns. It has been used to pollute, snarl, corrupt and cripple the web. It is used to steal information, to compromise people's privacy. It is slow and buggy. It requires a lot of CPU overhead. It's not efficient. And it's just plain messy. The antithesis of elegance.
Anything with the word "java" in it I have come to hate with a passion.
The guy who "invented" it should do the world a favor and commit hari-kiri.
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Javascript the most important language? Give me a break. It has all but RUINED the web. In the late-90s and early 2000s, lots of good, talented and forward thinking folks were trying their darndest to get behind the web standards movement and encourage everyone to create semantic web pages that loaded quickly, looked great and were perfectly functional. But Javascript is like the worst aspects of capitalism. Or handguns. It has been used to pollute, snarl, corrupt and cripple the web. It is used to steal information, to compromise people's privacy. It is slow and buggy. It requires a lot of CPU overhead. It's not efficient. And it's just plain messy. The antithesis of elegance. Anything with the word "java" in it I have come to hate with a passion. The guy who "invented" it should do the world a favor and commit hari-kiri.