by SCOTT M. FULTON, Read,Write,Web
The latest language from the company once identified for its programming languages seeks to bring a higher class of developer into the Web apps space, without changing the foundation of the Web… even if such a change wouldn’t be such a bad idea. Let’s be frightfully honest: JavaScript probably should not have been the first choice for the language of all Web functionality – at least, not without some serious reworking. It became standardized long before it was ever rationalized. And had rationality been the goal, it should have looked much more like Java than script. As with so much else on the Web, platform engineers are largely of the mindset that it’s too late to do much about it now. The exceptions are companies whose backbones still have some swagger to them, especially in the face of something new called “competition.”
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