Submitted 20 hours ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to technology@lemmy.zip
Thirty years later, JavaScript is the glue that holds the interactive web together, warts and all.
Worth the click just to see the Pic of Netscape 2.0 opening Alta vista.
Definitely had its frustrations, but overall this was when browsing the web was a largely enjoyable experience.
The Internet is held together by duct tape and glue sticks.
I wish JavaScript would die already.
Every software is.
Or at least all the browsers agree to implement something nicer as a standard.
Replace internet with WWW though.
Application frameworks like node.js have allowed JavaScript to break containment. Anything could be running JavaScript under the hood now. I’ve worked with FTP servers written entirely in JavaScript.
I mean, sure, but the JS we write today is quite a bit different than the JS he designed.
It was also heavily influenced by a number of other languages, and borrowed tons of libraries from them. The entire number and math system is just a straightforward implementation of IEEE 754.
Yes, but all of the quirks it had back then are still there, for backwards compatibility
Yeah, but only kind of. It depends if you’re using the new syntax. Within new language constructs (like Class), code runs in strict mode without having to use “use strict”. It gets rid of some of the annoying quirks.
Waits to see how long it takes for someone to post that XKCD picture
We’re gonna need a new one for JS, it was a tiny little brick in 1995, now it’s a sprawling cancerous behemoth dragging all the other blocks down.
In case you didn’t know, the original ‘Mozilla Suite’ (the browser/HTML composer/Mail client) is still apparently being developed! I’m sure it’s behind a lot of modern standards, but I love the idea it’s being kept alive…
It looks like it used modern Firefox and Thunderbird code under the hood, so it should be good on standards!
Neat – I just set it up, got my gmail going in the Mail app and it works.
uBlock Origin isn’t officially supported any more as it’s considered ‘legacy browser’, but I found a working XPI here and it even seems to block Youtube ads. Wow.
aka Nutscrape
It beats Microsoft Testicle Exploder.
I wasn’t familiar with those two products so I Gurgled them and the search results were… interesting.
ECMAScript was such a mistake.
Concepts from Scheme? You sure about that?
Yep. JavaScript is basically a LISP wearing a Java trenchcoat. Functions are first class citizens and can be passed around just like variables. Object orientation is weird and bolted on as an afterthought.
In case you’re wondering just how much functional programming is possible in JS, I recommend reading this: …gitbook.io/mostly-adequate-guide/
when you want Scheme but your boss wants Java
Supervisor194@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Speaking of hacks, that title sucks.