JavaScript Conquered the Web, Now It’s Taking Over the Desktop
&gt; It turns out it’s useful to have a lingua franca for the web.<p>No, I don&#x27;t think so. Most people do not use JavaScript since it is useful. They use it since it is the only option available on the browser. There is a BIG difference.<p>&gt; Creating desktop apps in JavaScript lets developers choose from a vast range of freely available code libraries and frameworks, which takes much of the grunt work out of coding<p>Lots of languages have a wide array of freely available code tooling and frameworks.<p>Slightly tangentially though, I wonder if we really <i>really</i> put our mind to it, will we be able to just kill JavaScript ?<p>I mean, I am sure that there are people out there making a living on JavaScript, but please, take one for the team. Learn something else. I hear it is a hot market for developers.<p>JavaScript is obviously a flawed language[1] that inspires absolutely bad programming that the rest of us has to deal with. The ecosystem is terrible[2] and the community is full of self-righteous assholes[3] who has the collective attention span of a 2 year old [4].<p>Let&#x27;s just call this experiment a failure, cut our losses  and just.move.on.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.destroyallsoftware.com&#x2F;talks&#x2F;wat" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.destroyallsoftware.com&#x2F;talks&#x2F;wat</a><p>[2] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theregister.co.uk&#x2F;2016&#x2F;03&#x2F;23&#x2F;npm_left_pad_chaos&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theregister.co.uk&#x2F;2016&#x2F;03&#x2F;23&#x2F;npm_left_pad_chaos&#x2F;</a><p>[3] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;atom-morgan.github.io&#x2F;in-defense-of-douglas-crockford" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;atom-morgan.github.io&#x2F;in-defense-of-douglas-crockford</a><p>[4] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@ericclemmons&#x2F;javascript-fatigue-48d4011b6fc4#.gc226gtmp" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@ericclemmons&#x2F;javascript-fatigue-48d4011b...</a>