From 06c76f16189bca39366d169c998611afb1bed413 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: carson Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2021 16:30:46 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] improve language --- www/essays/a-response-to-rich-harris.md | 16 +++++++--------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/www/essays/a-response-to-rich-harris.md b/www/essays/a-response-to-rich-harris.md index 93358e70..dd8dece6 100644 --- a/www/essays/a-response-to-rich-harris.md +++ b/www/essays/a-response-to-rich-harris.md @@ -152,19 +152,17 @@ Is it right for many, and perhaps most, web applications? We certainly think so Now we get to the most emotionally charged claim made in the talk: that "the ship has sailed" on javascript, and that we should accept that it will be the dominant programming language in web development going forward. +Mr. Harris believes that it will be [edge computing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edge_computing) that will be the +driver that finally eliminates the remaining scattered opposition to javascript. + We are not so sure about that. -Mr. Harris believes that it will be [edge computing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edge_computing) that will deliver the -final blow to the nails in many programming languages coffins. - To the contrary, we do not expect edge computing to figure in the majority of web applications for the foreseeable future. -Or, frankly, ever. CPU is cheap, network speeds are increasing and microservices are a mess. Don't @ us. +Or, frankly, ever. CPU is cheap, network speeds are fast and increasing and microservices are a mess. Don't @ us. And, contra what Mr. Harris says, today the [trend is not obviously in javascripts favor](https://insights.stackoverflow.com/trends?tags=java%2Cc%2Cc%2B%2B%2Cpython%2Cc%23%2Cvb.net%2Cjavascript%2Cassembly%2Cphp%2Cperl%2Cruby%2Cvb%2Cswift%2Cr%2Cobjective-c). Five years ago, we, as founding members -of the javascript resistance, were despairing of any hope of stopping the Javascript juggernaut. - -But then something unexpected and wonderful happened: Python took off and, from the looks of it, javascript has, well, -flat lined: +of the javascript resistance, were despairing of any hope of stopping the Javascript juggernaut. But then something +unexpected happened: Python took off and, at the same time, javascript flat lined:
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-Does this mean javascript will go away? +Does this mean javascript will go away? Of course not. Javascript is a core technology of the web and will be with us forever. Without it, we couldn't have built htmx (or [hyperscript](https://hyperscript.org)) to replace it, so we are very thankful, in a funny sort of way, for javascript.