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5 HN mentions · mentioned in 4 months, 2023–2024
2:16 · 737K views · Jun 1, 2023
A short video built around Douglas Crockford, creator of JSON, saying JavaScript is a flawed language and that developers should eventually move on from it. It is a brief commentary clip with little technical detail.
HN users cite it to show that even Crockford, once a JavaScript evangelist, has soured on the language, though some find it thin on substance.
5 comments from Hacker News
Reddit thread on “Why We Should Stop Using JavaScript According to Douglas Crockford (Inventor of JSON)” (2023, video 2’15”) this video He doesn’t really say much other than it could be better if we used “clean” operating systems and “clean” programming languages, whatever that means.
It's too late for me. I, like Douglas Crockford, am completely done with JavaScript [1]. HTMX, LiveView, WASM, Dart, ClojureScript, Kotlin, ScalaJS, Dioxus -- There are lots of options folks. We don't need to surrender to the tyranny of JavaScript. [1] this video
Lua has something similar called metatables [1]. I don't think crockford likes JS anymore [2] and seems to be hacking on C now [3]. [1]: [LINK] [2]: this video [3]: [LINK]
Actual video (2023): this video Instead of the reddit convo, some more discussions here: Last week: [LINK] Last year: [LINK] [LINK]
Can't we move on from JS for the backend? It is a brittle and confusing langugage. Author of JS the good parts: this video