JavaScript asceticism is a weird trend that has just never died out, no one treats any other language this way... and "privacy and security nightmare" can be used to describe most of the internet at this point with or without it

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swiftcoder 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> JavaScript asceticism is a weird trend that has just never died out, no one treats any other language this way

I'm not aware of any other language that is layered on top of a perfectly serviceable user-facing content delivery syntax?

	▲	alt227 12 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Literally any scripting language? I have managed to get 35 years into a sysadmin career without knowing or writing a single line of python. I see a python script, I run a million miles away and wont touch it with a barge pole.

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tomrod 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It can certainly come across as a "weird trend" but I've found that the most insistent for disabling JS are the folks who have deep knowledge of browsers and the security plane running webapps. YMMV.

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micromacrofoot 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I don't drive a car because I have deep knowledge of mortality statistics, but I don't complain when I can't easily get somewhere 100 miles away

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Dylan16807 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Showing a paragraph of text with some social links around it is like going down the block. If that requires a car you do have a problem.

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micromacrofoot an hour ago | parent [-]

yeah but it's an extreme fringe choice... I too make extreme fringe choices but I don't expect 99.9% of the people who don't make my extreme fringe choice to change on my behalf

hell, use a browser in a sandbox if you're that paranoid

there are a number of ways to do this securely, at this point it's practically a child's tantrum

but sure maybe it just needs a couple more decades of complaining in obscure comment sections and everyone will finally get it and switch back to mailing lists

	▲	rezonant an hour ago \| parent [-]
		ooh, don't forget irc

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kevin_thibedeau an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

JS is a vector for browser exploits and privacy invasion. No other language is commonly used for these things.

	▲	alt227 9 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Not even things like batch files and visual basic scripts on windows? Everyone seems to forget we had decades of dodgy scripts and activex controls in our browsers for years before javascript became the thing it is today.