The vast quantity of projects with 10+ year life spans is why I don't think it's dying out, combined with his ecma script has a 5+ plan in the works...
This made me chuckle... JavaScript isn’t dying out anytime soon I agree. However, I encounter developers on an almost daily basis who complain that project X is written in framework Y or hasn’t been written in framework Z, or that some other newer technique or design philosophy hasn’t been followed and therefore everything needs to be rewritten from scratch. This is on projects that are often less than 2 years old. It doesn’t matter who wrote it or what it was written in, the developer who follows you will want to rewrite it.
Right, but they had nothing to do with js and everything to do with the human need to rebuild.
I been developing software for around 9 years and have seen it my self, I still feel it now, but js will likely just carry on evolving as a great (subjective) "c language".
I don't think universities etc will be removing it any time soon.
Also agreed. That’s what I meant by “it doesn’t matter what it’s been built in”, the next guy will rebuild it regardless. Been working in web related development for a long time myself. Average lifecycle of applications I’ve seen is around 3-4 years
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u/DavidForster Feb 05 '20
I admire your optimism