JavaScript first enabled the enrichment of website interaction. It made its first appearance as tiny snippets of code that lived inside HTML attributes.
It went on to enable -unprecedentedly- a new generation of rich applications like Gmail that improved on Desktop counterparts , eg Outlook.
The web and mobile web are now decisively JavaScript-driven.
With Node.JS, JavaScript entered the server. It’s now the fastest-growing OSS project and community. With Electron, JavaScript entered the OS. Applications like Atom and Slack are entirely JavaScript-powered. With Progressive Web Apps, React Native and NativeScript, JavaScript’s entering mobile. Based on its track record, I certainly wouldn’t bet against it.
JavaScript is the language that unifies technologies. This talk will explore how its future might look a lot like its beginnings: short snippets of code. Or how the goal of JavaScript is to write very little JavaScript.
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2 responses to “Guillermo Rauch – PROGRAMMING THE JAVASCRIPT FUTURE”
Great talk by rauchg!
What the heck? When did we start moving away from apis and moving to these "micro services" I can't help but think sometimes developers make things up to keep their job.