| >JavaScript stepped up to the plate because nobody else did. Javascript didn't "step up" to any plate. Browser vendors simply refused to support other languages. > Electron is there because nothing else could provide the same level of power for total novices to come in and make groundbreaking applications. Electron is there because software developers wanted to create apps with cheap labor and there were plenty of javascript web devs around. > Node is there because nothing else let you hire a guy who could handle literally every single aspect of your business's digital presence, from front end sites to internal employee portals to mobile apps to APIs to vendor integrations. Node is there because of SV hype and money, and no company should (or would) have the same employee handling "literally every single aspect of your business's digital presence, from front end sites to internal employee portals to mobile apps to APIs to vendor integrations," nor does knowing Javascript qualify a single person for all of these roles. That's not a use case, it's a power fantasy. I agree with most of your comment, although it seems as if you believe there was no open source development or public development of software before javascript came along, and the line you're drawing between "javascript" and "elitists manipulating society and capitalism" is specious, but none of what's good about javascript excuses what's bad about the ecosystem, culture and the increasing centralization and control over both by corporate interests. |