JavaScript is the fastest-growing language (in terms of adoption) the development community has ever seen.
I feel like this could use a citation. Have we so soon forgotten the script less version of JavaScript, Java, which was so hot Netscape named their language after it?
I would say that it’s due less to forgetting and more due to not having experienced the rise of Java (given that people born in the early 90’s are now hitting the industry). If someone were born in ‘85, they’d have been ~10 for Java 1.0, ~15 for Java 2/netscape’s acquisition/etc. That person would be ~31 now.
But that was true a decade ago, no? By the metric of users capable of entering JS and running it, I think we’re well past peak JS growth.
Anyway, it caught my eye as a kind of accidental negative signalling. The author is trying to establish some credentials here (“you need to listen to me because”) but to me it backfired because it sounds more like a lack of experience and perspective.
I feel like this could use a citation. Have we so soon forgotten the script less version of JavaScript, Java, which was so hot Netscape named their language after it?
I would say that it’s due less to forgetting and more due to not having experienced the rise of Java (given that people born in the early 90’s are now hitting the industry). If someone were born in ‘85, they’d have been ~10 for Java 1.0, ~15 for Java 2/netscape’s acquisition/etc. That person would be ~31 now.
Everything with a browser runs it, and anything that isn’t mobile has a developer console, so one can develop in it.
So, this is probably a reasonable statement to make, in terms of raw install and development-capable base.
But that was true a decade ago, no? By the metric of users capable of entering JS and running it, I think we’re well past peak JS growth.
Anyway, it caught my eye as a kind of accidental negative signalling. The author is trying to establish some credentials here (“you need to listen to me because”) but to me it backfired because it sounds more like a lack of experience and perspective.