| ▲ | righthand 4 days ago | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
> Lastly, JavaScript continues to show its strength as a language for GUI programming, being employed in a variety of ways to develop native apps on mobile phones and Smart TVs, though with web view based apps still being the vogue on desktop. Really? I thought over the last decade we let other languages into the browser but Javascript was so amazing that no one uses the other languages. Javascript has had all this competition on the UI layer it’s amazing it came out #1. Am I reading the implication correctly? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | LinguaBrowse 4 days ago | parent [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
> I thought over the last decade we let other languages into the browser Not so much! Rhino was an effort to rewrite Netscape Navigator in Java, and I expect that if that rewrite had taken off, Java might've gained a foothold (though indeed, there were Java applets for a time). There were also Flash apps, and of course there are some significant games based on WebAssembly and low-level graphics APIs. But ultimately JavaScript works well for GUI because it is so dynamic, allowing you to be less rigid in how you architect things. And by being a scripting language, it's super quick to iterate on. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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