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> Web application development is hard Replace JavaScript with Java in all browsers and make it much easier, dependable, predictable and reliable.
by fail2fail2ban 10y ago
> Web application development is hard
Replace JavaScript with Java in all browsers and make it much easier, dependable, predictable and reliable.
- ng12 10y agoWell yeah, that'd be great. But the unfortunate reality is Javascript is the lingua franca of the web and we have to make due until there's a reasonable alternative. Furthmore, it's not even JS that's really the problem. It's the entire JS/DOM/CSS stack.
- fail2fail2ban 10y agoI like the DOM, basic CSS is fine. The twisted stuff some people do with CSS I'm not fine with but yeah I know. JS isn't going away, what irks me the most is the naivety around trying to push it to the backend. It doesn't belong in the backend when the frontend story is so messed up.
- bschwindHN 10y agoBackend JS is not perfect by any stretch of the imagination, but if you limit yourself to plain data and functions and write simple code, it can really work nicely for getting stuff done and iterating on an idea.