4 Matching Annotations
- Mar 2021
-
www.sitepoint.com www.sitepoint.com
-
The elimination of what is arguably the biggest monoculture in the history of software development would mean that we, the community, could finally take charge of both languages and run-times, and start to iterate and grow these independently of browser/server platforms, vendors, and organizations, all pulling in different directions, struggling for control of standards, and (perhaps most importantly) freeing the entire community of developers from the group pressure of One Language To Rule Them All.
-
JavaScript needs to fly from its comfy nest, and learn to survive on its own, on equal terms with other languages and run-times. It’s time to grow up, kid.
-
If JavaScript were detached from the client and server platforms, the pressure of being a monoculture would be lifted — the next iteration of the JavaScript language or run-time would no longer have to please every developer in the world, but instead could focus on pleasing a much smaller audience of developers who love JavaScript and thrive with it, while enabling others to move to alternative languages or run-times.
Tags
- runtime environment
- separation of concerns
- avoid giving partiality/advantage/bias to any specific option
- related but independent projects that can be developed independently
- programming languages
- one size fits all mentality
- good idea
- neutral/unbiased/agnostic
- single responsibility
- JavaScript: as a process VM
- software freedom
- independent release cycles among peer dependencies
- neutral ground
- competition in open-source software
- programming languages: choosing the best language for the job
- level playing field
Annotators
URL
-
- Nov 2019
-
hapgood.us hapgood.us
-
It’s not enough to check the stuff that is suspicious: if you apply your investigations selectively, you’ve already lost the battle.
This made me reflection on biases. If our research methodology is biased from the very beginning, then everything that comes after will also be biased.
-