There are probably tens of thousands of developers waiting in line to switch out JS. The reason they can’t is not even that it can’t run in the browser (many can) but that it interacts with the DOM natively, which makes it the only language that can be used in the browser without masochism. In turn, the DOM is the only UI that is truly cross platform, which makes it the by far best and cheapest option because everything else is either hobby or proprietary in 10 different flavors depending on which fiefdom you build your product in. Basically, JS isn’t popular because of ability, but its interoperability.
The effort & money that has been poured into tech after JS was created would dwarf anything beforehand. Yet, we live today by the open standards that were developed before Bezos etc started purchasing private islands. So I’m a little hesitant to blaming JS for being backwards when the rest of the world couldn’t come up with an alternative despite having 1000x (not an exaggeration I think) more time and money to do so.
There are probably tens of thousands of developers waiting in line to switch out JS. The reason they can’t is not even that it can’t run in the browser (many can) but that it interacts with the DOM natively, which makes it the only language that can be used in the browser without masochism. In turn, the DOM is the only UI that is truly cross platform, which makes it the by far best and cheapest option because everything else is either hobby or proprietary in 10 different flavors depending on which fiefdom you build your product in. Basically, JS isn’t popular because of ability, but its interoperability.
The effort & money that has been poured into tech after JS was created would dwarf anything beforehand. Yet, we live today by the open standards that were developed before Bezos etc started purchasing private islands. So I’m a little hesitant to blaming JS for being backwards when the rest of the world couldn’t come up with an alternative despite having 1000x (not an exaggeration I think) more time and money to do so.