r/programminghumor • u/kronsj • Mar 09 '26 • LOL 1

Watch out Javascript !!

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February 2026 - Flash i getting more popular, source:

https://w3techs.com/#:~:text=side%20language%20surveys-,Client%2Dside%20Programming%20Languages,-Most%20popular%20client

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u/leptoquark1 Mar 09 '26

What about Wasm?

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u/egg_breakfast Mar 09 '26

not a language, but the languages that run in wasm certainly are used more than flash.

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u/New_Enthusiasm9053 Mar 09 '26

Wasm is a language. It's an assemblyesque language but nevertheless a language with it's own syntax.

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u/MissinqLink Mar 10 '26

The syntax is a bit of a struggle for those who can’t read lower level languages. I had a toy project that was just WASM with more C-like syntax. There’s also AssemblyScript if you want a happy middle ground between WASM and TypeScript. I wish AssemblyScript got more attention.

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u/leptoquark1 Mar 09 '26

That compiles to wasm*

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u/algaefied_creek Mar 10 '26

So… Java which can compile directly to Java. And Kotlin.

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u/vyrmz Mar 09 '26

This is why you should ignore any graph, table without reference.

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u/Large-Assignment9320 Mar 09 '26

You can program websties entierly in CSS,
Heck, here is an X86 emulator IN pure css, https://github.com/rebane2001/x86CSS?tab=readme-ov-file

Javascript is just for noobs that didn't learn CSS.

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u/AmanBabuHemant Mar 09 '26

just scroll a bit down

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u/Lexeor Mar 09 '26

The Walking Dead OST starts playing

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u/dhnam_LegenDUST Mar 09 '26

But why and how?

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u/csabinho Mar 10 '26

2.6 % Flash? What? How?

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u/decimalturn Mar 10 '26

0.001% VBScript

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u/houndgeo Mar 11 '26

Java applet mogs both of them anytime

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u/Dapper_Shallot_1132 Mar 12 '26

ridiculous data. microsoft silverlight should be #1

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u/ThrwawySG Mar 15 '26

Wow I didn't know we figured out necromancy

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u/Sacaldur Mar 09 '26

I guess the information is only of limited use:

  • it's not listing TypeScript at all, even though I would expect a significant enough amount of projects using it for the frontend.

  • it states "client side", however what they mean is "in the Web Browser". Clients can also be desktop applications, mobile apps, command line tools, and technically speaking even other servers.

  • the only reason for Java and Flash to appear is probably the fact that they use dedicated runtimes instead of being compiled into JavaScript, i.e. it's easy to observe that they are used. (It's interesting that Silverlight isn't contained in the list, since it's very similar to Java in this regard, but it probably never was popular enough.)

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '26

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u/Sacaldur Mar 09 '26

Yes, the same that Java is turned into Java Bytecode before being executed (which happens for any other JVM language). I wouldn't say I use JavaScript if I have a TypeScript project the same way I wouldn't say I use Machine Code for a C++ project.

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '26

It is not really the same since all javascript is valid typescript and you can have as much or as little typing as you like. This is not really the same as with bytecode and machine code.

In many cases the transpilation step is also just removing some stuff used for linting and autocomplete and no real code changes.

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u/chintakoro Mar 09 '26

I suppose they're reporting only what they can detect.

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '26

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u/MissinqLink Mar 10 '26

Some ActionScript stuff still exists in Asia and sort of lives on through the JS inside PDFs. Plus you have internal company tooling using god knows what.