JavaScript Conquered the Web, Now It’s Taking Over the Desktop
> It turns out it’s useful to have a lingua franca for the web.No, I don'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.> 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 codingLots of languages have a wide array of freely available code tooling and frameworks.Slightly tangentially though, I wonder if we really really put our mind to it, will we be able to just kill JavaScript ?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.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].Let's just call this experiment a failure, cut our losses  and just.move.on.[1] https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat[2] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/23/npm_left_pad_chaos/[3] http://atom-morgan.github.io/in-defense-of-douglas-crockford[4] https://medium.com/@ericclemmons/javascript-fatigue-48d4011b...