Why is this thing so popular again? It seems everyone is trying to do everything in JavaScript nowadays. I wouldn't even be surprised to see a variant of Linux rewritten in JavaScript nowadays.
Inspired by this thread (Upterm, a terminal emulator made in Electron)
Because it lets you run programs on various operating systems without installing anything.
ie: same reasons Java and Flash were popular, but Javascript is less shit and makes it even easier to bypass the IT department.
Brandon Lee
>more elegant no
Kevin Sanchez
yes it is, python syntax is bullshit, people ends using numpy (fucking matlab/octave inside python) cuz python is horrible and slow by itself, javascript feels a lot like a lisp without tons of stupid parentheses.
Brayden James
Not necessarily "a variant of Linux", depending on your definition of variant, but there's node-os.com/
Andrew Jones
It was only a matter of time().
Jason Phillips
I own a couple websites. But I'm not really sure what i'd need javascript for besides image galleries and cookie warnings.
Henry Nguyen
actually exists in the firmware world its called espruino espruino.com/
and its so cool because you have a real time kernel dedicated to parse JS its so lit to use setInterval instead timing interruptions for example, the only trade off is ram ,javascript primitive types are a little bit heavier than native ones.
Wyatt Young
thats because you dont know what JS is.
Christian Price
thank you for your input
Isaiah Cruz
easy, fast, it just werks. gtfo grandpa.
Cooper Lee
>easy Is not, actually is so underrated by normalfags and thats the reason why has been seen as a toy language and is full of shitty coders who thinks is easy.
Dominic Murphy
jPortable anyone?
Adam Perry
Same as MongoDB. When node popped up, they made some outrageous claims about performance regarding node servers and their async IO, so all the cool kids started using it.
Yeah, I'm sure Karpathy trains his real neural nets in his JS babbie implementation meant to run in browsers.
Xavier Parker
>meant to run in browsers. runs also on node.js very well
Jonathan Stewart
Interpreted toy example script vs optimized and compiled code that runs on your GPU or at least makes use of all your cores and CPU instruction sets
Austin Kelly
>implying all aplicatios requires high learning times >some people works on reinforced learning and doesn't need to train against a fixed dataset batch >implying you will do a big data project in your own computers instead to use a dedicated service for that
Caleb Gonzalez
Now that's just gross.
Lucas Wright
well, for a scripting language it's pretty cool as a web server it's better than php