alt Hacker NewsReality bites. JS devs have tried to use JS for everything and found limits. It isn't a one language to rule the all. Welcome back to the world of needing the right tools for the job.
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embedding-shape • yesterday at 9:59 AM
> JS devs have tried to use JS for everything and found limits
Yeah, seems NodeJS kind of made some people into JS-zealots, while us web developers have thought of separation of concerns from the beginning, hence the holy trinity of HTML, JS and CSS. Glad others are catching up with web developers for once :)
Don't underestimate prototyping nature of js that allowed for exporing design space at higher speed throughout the years.
Reminds me when I was working on distributed filesystem at LiveDrive more than 10 years ago, wrote working prototype and few iterations in Ruby before rewriting it in C - somebody said "(you did it) because Ruby was slow/crap?", I said "no, because Ruby was essential (to do it quick)".
Also interop with those tools (though wasm) is relatively new.
Js/ts ecosystem is actually quite nice now with this option to use wasm for performance - while still keeping "works on the server and in the browser" intact.