>Js is clearly doing a fine job at client side programming, should we not be happy with that?
I'm not happy with that. Lots of people want to say that the Web will one day replace native apps and this is precisely one of the reasons I hope that never happens: with a native App I can do the whole thing in one language. With the web I have to deal with HTML, CSS, <server side language > and Javascript for the client side. At the very least I'd like to be able to use <server side language> on the client as well. Why must we all be forced to use Javascript? It's not even a particularly nice language IMO.
>That sounds like hell to a front-end developer. Its bad enough learning coffeescript or other dialects if a company uses them, but other languages too?
What? Right now all languages either use a VM or they compile to assembly. Has that been so bad? If you read server side code you might be required to learn literally any language. Why should the client be different?
My hope is that someone will come out with a VM browser plug in that lets me write in any language I want, compile to to a binary that runs on that VM, and this plug in eventually replaces Javascript as the defacto web language.
Stop holding the browser client side programming environment hostage!
I'm not happy with that. Lots of people want to say that the Web will one day replace native apps and this is precisely one of the reasons I hope that never happens: with a native App I can do the whole thing in one language. With the web I have to deal with HTML, CSS, <server side language > and Javascript for the client side. At the very least I'd like to be able to use <server side language> on the client as well. Why must we all be forced to use Javascript? It's not even a particularly nice language IMO.
>That sounds like hell to a front-end developer. Its bad enough learning coffeescript or other dialects if a company uses them, but other languages too?
What? Right now all languages either use a VM or they compile to assembly. Has that been so bad? If you read server side code you might be required to learn literally any language. Why should the client be different?
My hope is that someone will come out with a VM browser plug in that lets me write in any language I want, compile to to a binary that runs on that VM, and this plug in eventually replaces Javascript as the defacto web language.
Stop holding the browser client side programming environment hostage!