One Language to Rule Them All

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1. 1.	JavaScript: The Good Parts by Douglas Crockford via O'Reilly Fortunately, JavaScript has some extraordinarily good parts. In JavaScript, there is a beautiful, elegant, highly expressive language that is buried under a steaming pile of good intentions and blunders.

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   Forget the Click Bait. Here’s What the JavaScript Job Market Really Looks Like in 2016. by Eric Elliott via Medium JavaScript is currently the most popular programming language with the richest OSS module ecosystem, and the only programming language with a really convincing universal deployment story: The “write once, run everywhere” dream that Java aspired to — Java fell short. JavaScript pulled it off.

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   What To Expect From JavaScript In 2016 – Beyond the Browser by Christopher Chedeau via Telerik At Facebook, we need to implement the exact same feature 3 times: for Web, iOS and Android. Even worse, because it’s so hard for one engineer to get ramped up in those ecosystems, we usually have 3 people implementing that feature. This is sad.In order to solve that, my intuition is that there needs to be a single language/ecosystem. With React Native we opted for JavaScript but in the grand scheme of things it doesn’t matter which language it is. What’s most important is that there is only one.

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   Progressive Enhancement: Zed’s Dead, Baby by Tom Dale via tomdale.net We live in a time where you can assume JavaScript is part of the web platform. Worrying about browsers without JavaScript is like worrying about whether you’re backwards compatible with HTML 3.2 or CSS2. At some point, you have to accept that some things are just part of the platform. Drawing the line at JavaScript is an arbitrary delineation that doesn’t match the state of browsers in 2013.