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by nolok
782 days ago
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Oh I would agree but Javascript is anything BUT stable in its environnement and frameworks etc... Trying to update a one year old php code base with composer means no issue at the end in 99% of the time. Javascript's ecosystem is not anywhere that yet. |
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If it's a stable environment that runs old code you want, then if I had my way we'd all be programming interactive distributed network extensible web apps in PostScript instead of JavaScript, and that language has been stagnant for a much longer time than PHP has ever existed (13 years before PHP 1.0 was released in 1995), since you can still print and view all of your old PostScript documents from 1982, 42 years ago.
HyperMedia browser with embedded "applets" in PostScript:
https://donhopkins.medium.com/hyperties-discussions-from-hac...
HyperCard-like GUI builder and SimCity in PostScript:
https://donhopkins.medium.com/hyperlook-nee-hypernews-nee-go...
Visual programming language in PostScript:
https://donhopkins.medium.com/the-shape-of-psiber-space-octo...
Owen Densmore's description of John Warnock's "Linguistic Motherboard":
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29295116
Owen Densmore's object oriented PostScript programming system:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18696116
Brian Reid's history of JaM, Interpress, and PostScript:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37202149
PostScript's relation to Forth, Lisp, and Smalltalk:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21968175
PostScript's relation to PDF:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37202149
Alan Kay on "Should web browsers have stuck to being document viewers?" and a discussion of Smalltalk, HyperCard, NeWS, and HyperLook:
https://donhopkins.medium.com/alan-kay-on-should-web-browser...