Everything will converge to Javascript, everywhere

๐ŸŽ™๏ธ i_like_trains_a_lot1 ยท 86 points ยท Posted at 08:45:20 on April 9, 2019 ยท (Permalink)


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advice-alligator ยท 91 points ยท Posted at 09:05:19 on April 9, 2019 ยท (Permalink)

...before you wake up, panting and drenched in sweat.

n3f4s ยท 35 points ยท Posted at 10:31:05 on April 9, 2019 ยท (Permalink)

And you realize it wasn't a dream...

go-race ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 15:37:37 on April 9, 2019 ยท (Permalink)

A wet dream of another kind.

[deleted] ยท 56 points ยท Posted at 09:28:49 on April 9, 2019 ยท (Permalink)*

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LIGHTNINGBOLT23 ยท 38 points ยท Posted at 10:04:28 on April 9, 2019 ยท (Permalink)

They could call it Plan 9 from Google.

logicchains ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 12:57:54 on April 9, 2019 ยท (Permalink)

Lol no generics.

username0x223 ยท 36 points ยท Posted at 12:01:58 on April 9, 2019 ยท (Permalink)

We've been there[1]. And we'll probably go there again, because that's just how webdevs are.


ProfessorSexyTime ยท 21 points ยท Posted at 13:59:29 on April 9, 2019 ยท (Permalink)

/uj

That post you linked to is fantastic.

username0x223 ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 15:57:22 on April 9, 2019 ยท (Permalink)

/uj

I was sad when Uncov disappeared from the internet, and happy to find that archive. You should probably scrape it before it goes down.

kairwani ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 21:45:06 on April 9, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
ponybau5 ยท 12 points ยท Posted at 13:51:13 on April 9, 2019 ยท (Permalink)

And then we'll transpile c programs to js on top of web os so we all can truly embrace teh script

hexane360 ยท 7 points ยท Posted at 16:17:13 on April 9, 2019 ยท (Permalink)

It is TechCrunch's official position that Google Chrome will compete full on with Microsoft Windows, and computers will be sold with Chrome only, having the Windows layer "stripped out". I am not shitting you, he actually said that.

And 3 years later the Chromebook was released. . .

just highlights how much journalists shitty bloggers don't know about computers

[deleted] ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 22:14:32 on April 9, 2019 ยท (Permalink)

That man is was doing God's work. I hope he's in a good place rn.

feraferoxdei ยท 35 points ยท Posted at 11:13:35 on April 9, 2019 ยท (Permalink)

Your version of the browser is not genuine. You can't access your file system.

Installing a Unix based operating system requires a pro license. Click here to upgrade.

Skenvy ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 10:06:43 on April 9, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
ArmoredPancake ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 10:29:11 on April 9, 2019 ยท (Permalink)

Written in C, C++

It's not running on bare metal, though, like N O D E dot Jay Es does.

three18ti ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 17:33:36 on April 9, 2019 ยท (Permalink)

Inb4 "The Birth and Death of Javascript"

bmarkovic ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 18:51:43 on April 9, 2019 ยท (Permalink)

Are you from 2008?

[deleted] ยท 27 points ยท Posted at 11:36:14 on April 9, 2019 ยท (Permalink)

The only reason NASA aren't on Mars yet is cause they aren't using superior Node.js technology

ArmoredPancake ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 11:38:57 on April 9, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
username0x223 ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 12:24:47 on April 9, 2019 ยท (Permalink)

Glad I'm not an astronaut who depends upon left_pad.

RAKtheUndead ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 11:56:17 on April 9, 2019 ยท (Permalink)

Ouch, that's stomach-churning.

terserterseness ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:50:45 on April 9, 2019 ยท (Permalink)

That's depressing.

git_commit_-m_sudoku ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 20:46:42 on April 10, 2019 ยท (Permalink)*

superior Node.js technology

That and the WASM energy beam.

15rthughes ยท 19 points ยท Posted at 13:33:46 on April 9, 2019 ยท (Permalink)

Canโ€™t wait until all Linux servers are running unfinished hello world react apps, itโ€™s the future.

kairwani ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 21:33:38 on April 9, 2019 ยท (Permalink)

and thousands of Todo apps.

bartekko ยท 37 points ยท Posted at 10:11:45 on April 9, 2019 ยท (Permalink)

Why are JavaScript scrubs so confindent about their language. Yeah it's the most popular on Github, but that just means webshits don't care enough to set up a gitlab, so those stats are not any more reliable than Pypl or Tiobe

NeverMakesMistkes ยท 45 points ยท Posted at 10:56:45 on April 9, 2019 ยท (Permalink)

gitlab

lol not sending patches via email

NihilistDandy ยท 22 points ยท Posted at 11:18:37 on April 9, 2019 ยท (Permalink)

Not using Pijulโ€™s superior patch theory

Poddster ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 12:52:18 on April 9, 2019 ยท (Permalink)
username0x223 ยท 11 points ยท Posted at 13:07:16 on April 9, 2019 ยท (Permalink)

Pijul is inspired by a result from category theory,...

It looks like DARCS upped its game.

fp_weenie ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 13:49:37 on April 9, 2019 ยท (Permalink)

of course, by being rewritten in Rust

username0x223 ยท 6 points ยท Posted at 16:10:07 on April 9, 2019 ยท (Permalink)

Certainly this must be a joke? Nope:

Pijul, like any software, has bugs. In the past, some users have started believing that our bugs are "design choices", and have blamed us for our poor decisions.

So I guess it is, but not the one I thought it was.

spookthesunset ยท 16 points ยท Posted at 16:13:09 on April 9, 2019 ยท (Permalink)

Exactly. GitHub violates the Unix principle of simple tools doing simple things. All these millennials with their JavaScript-based โ€œmerge requestsโ€ are working much slower than the 1200 line bash script I use to generate email patches from CVS and send to my projectโ€™s mailing list.

If there is an error in my patch I can just hand edit it. Plus merge requests are vendor lock-in. My email patch will continue to work even if Github arbitrarily decides to shut my project down (it is M$, donโ€™t forget). Iโ€™d love to see these โ€œmodernโ€ developers deal with that.

fp_weenie ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 13:50:00 on April 9, 2019 ยท (Permalink)

are you a darcs user by chance?

DC2SEA ยท 9 points ยท Posted at 14:14:41 on April 9, 2019 ยท (Permalink)

I use Arch btw

three18ti ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 17:36:00 on April 9, 2019 ยท (Permalink)

git

Lol not using SVN

msiekkinen ยท 15 points ยท Posted at 14:08:34 on April 9, 2019 ยท (Permalink)

Just in time for me to retire to my farm and fuck pigs all day, which would be much more enjoyable than this hellscape.

spookthesunset ยท 10 points ยท Posted at 16:22:23 on April 9, 2019 ยท (Permalink)

OP please mark posts that require javascript to view so I know to skip over them. Believe it or not some of us enlightened 10x โ€˜ers refuse to allow unverified and untrusted code to maliciously run on our sacred computing device. (DAE use NoScript? Upvotes on the left!)

HTML was designed to load semantically correct content and have the viewer control the style to their preferences. When I encounter a site that forces me to use their styles, I just skip and move on. Clearly they canโ€™t be bothered to cater to my needs so why waste time humoring them with a visit?

stingraycharles ยท 17 points ยท Posted at 09:35:45 on April 9, 2019 ยท (Permalink)

This has been predicted by one famous guru already: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death-of-javascript

username0x223 ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 12:19:38 on April 9, 2019 ยท (Permalink)

Kinda sorta. JSC runtimes are already ubiquitous. The language spec for JS is evolving fasthaving an epileptic fit. Babbel, Webpack, et al are allowing us to use new shiny things fasterjerk, there is also WASM, so its just a matter of time before people realize that "transpiling" is not worth it!

Mo'hit Thatte!

thosakwe ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 12:49:11 on April 9, 2019 ยท (Permalink)

Lol @ thinking programmers will ever agree on one common solution to any problem

ArmoredPancake ยท 18 points ยท Posted at 13:19:37 on April 9, 2019 ยท (Permalink)

JavaScript

solution to a problem

Uncaught TypeError: undefined is not a function

thosakwe ยท 2 points ยท Posted at 14:13:06 on April 9, 2019 ยท (Permalink)

undefined !== 1

LeComm ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 16:57:07 on April 9, 2019 ยท (Permalink)

Which you donยดt see on your PCยดs screen until the next morning after a night of running the script.

lru_skil ยท 8 points ยท Posted at 14:01:05 on April 9, 2019 ยท (Permalink)

Haskell isn't going anywhere! What will all the researchers do :P (totally just kidding!)

No, you're not.

Haskell never goes anywhere. Can't fail if you never try.

Depth_Magnet ยท 4 points ยท Posted at 14:46:41 on April 9, 2019 ยท (Permalink)

My biggest question is why does Barrack Obama follow this guy on twitter

binaryblade ยท 3 points ยท Posted at 16:55:48 on April 9, 2019 ยท (Permalink)

Imagine being this delusional and off your meds.

likeboats ยท 1 points ยท Posted at 14:56:39 on April 9, 2019 ยท (Permalink)

ewwww