Tools are just tools,
Build a house with a blueprint,
But don't use one tool to build a house.

Sincerely yours,
CompanyWhoUsesJavascriptForEverything

i truly dislike how people are enabled to do everything in javascript. electron, react native, nodejs. fuck them.

if there's going to be one (object-oriented) universal language it should be dart. it takes the good from lots of languages and doesn't bring the bad. there's little to no clutter or boilerplate code. it's incredibly easy to learn and use.

i would like to see functional programming implemented at a higher level though.

@calmyourtities Yay! A dartisan like me who thinks dart is the most underrated language.

Still though, I still don't like the idea of dart being the jack of all trades. I love dart, but as a client-optimized and fastest growing language because of FLUTTER.

@torbuntu I am seeking to join the kingdom of LISP instead, but you are free to try to convince me otherwise.

@torbuntu I wan to follow up with something else that sounds like the Two of Programming, but I'm apparently too tired to do so right now.

Each language has its own advantage ... company should understand it

@powerfulparadox isn't clojure lisp on the jvm though so that's quite the compromise

greetings from COMPANY-WHICH-USES-COBOL-FOR-EVERYTHING

nah, the universal language that does everything should be php....

*runs out of the room...

Is there another language that works both client side and server side? No? How about a language that works client side? No? Do we have another language that has been supported in the browser for 24 years? No?

I suppose that means that it is like COBOL and going to be around for a while regardless of whether we like it or not. May as well learn to work past its weaknesses. Typescript and etc.

To be clear, I don't think people like the state of web development but it is what we are stuck with unless someone with more power like Google or Baidu decides that they are going to make new standards to replace html, css, and javascript. (Which are all terrible.)