JavaScript: Past, Present and Future - David Neal

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Ah, JavaScript! Like it or not, it's a "tragically important" language that is "eating the world." Hate it? Love it? Avoid it? Embrace it?

This talk will be a parade of face-palm JavaScript fails, stupid JavaScript tricks, and bad jokes sure to get an eye-roll from everyone! Along the way, we may even learn a few mistakes to avoid and tips to make our own JavaScript less terrible!

[ManuelBTC]

The combination of TypeScript and QuickJS gives me hope.

[lucasa]

In my case I like to use typescript because I don't have to have the intire system in my head and remerber what are the types of variables and functions that I'm working with and I can focus more on what I have to doo and less on understand the big picture everytime I open the code editor

[custommarketnews]

'.. the destruction of the Death Star was due to a very strong JavaScript committer ..' ? Haha

[jan_harald]

problem is that javascript was initially whipped up in like, a week or few... and only patched over, with time...
people have forgotten how much you can do with server-side scripting... javascript is an abomination that should never have escaped web browsers...

[e.h.]

WebAssembly. Let's put JavaScript and its entire baggage of endless pain and torture in the grave it has deserved for decades.

[nmarcel]

Fortunately, we are no longer forced to use JS (with its "features") to have code running in a browser thanks to webassembly. Anyways, great talk!

[dengan]

garbage "language", which increases pain and suffering in this world.

[creepychris]

tc 39 uses a 0 based index - bunch of nerds 😂

[UnordEntertainment]

what is going on at 43:53?? disliked, even though i liked the speaker and talk