diff --git a/www/essays/a-response-to-rich-harris.md b/www/essays/a-response-to-rich-harris.md index aedfb059..66bcd66c 100644 --- a/www/essays/a-response-to-rich-harris.md +++ b/www/essays/a-response-to-rich-harris.md @@ -181,9 +181,9 @@ This trend of javascript peaking in the mid-2010's can be observed [on Github](h Now, does this mean javascript will eventually "lose" to Python and 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)), so we are very thankful for javascript. +htmx (or [hyperscript](https://hyperscript.org)) so we are very thankful for javascript. -But this *does* imply that the future of the web does not *necessarily* belong to javascript, as appeared to be the case +But this *does* imply that the future of the web does not *necessarily* belong to *entirely* javascript, as appeared to be the case say five years ago. We are fond of talking about the HOWL stack: Hypermedia On Whatever you'd Like. The idea is that, by returning to a (more powerful) Hypermedia Architecture, you can use whatever backend language you'd like: python, lisp, haskell, go, java, c#, whatever. Even javascript, if you like. There's no accounting for taste, after all.