We’re past the halfway point of Bernhardt’s 2035 timeline; JavaScript hasn’t died yet, but it’s clearly writing its own eulogy in WebAssembly.

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wiseowise 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Multiple generations of your family will be long dead before last JS instruction gets executed. Unless there's going to happen a global thermonuclear war. I still bet on JS surviving over most humans.

	▲	Macha 2 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		The same is true of COBOL and Fortran. But also for most purposes, they are practically* dead. * With the one exception of BLAS which is widely used via NumPy
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jazz9k 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I review many sites/month from different clients. They are all using some form of JavaScript.

It's like PHP, it will never die.

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jerf 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

"Death" is hard to define for a programming language. It's tempting to say "the last time anyone writes it", or maybe "runs it", but to put that in biological terms that seems like defining "death" for a person as "the last chemical bond that was part of their body is broken"... sure, it'll happen someday, but all the properties we associate with the term "death" happen rather soon than that.

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matt_kantor 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> It's like PHP, it will never die.

I predict that PHP will live a long life, but not as long as C, and I predict JavaScript will have a lifespan closer to C's than PHP's.

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varun_ch 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It’s also relevant that LLMs have so much JavaScript training data that I don’t see a world where we’re not still using JavaScript.

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fishfasell 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The JS death and AI bubble are two events I keep hearing about but will never come.

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inigyou 2 days ago | parent [-]

The AI bubble is now, maybe you mean the AI bubble pop

	▲	fishfasell 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Yes sorry, bubble pop

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lezojeda 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

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