20 years ago, I was advocating for javascript.
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My story was that javascript is a much better language than anybody knows.
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And that if we use it properly, we can do amazing things about it and it can change the world and in fact that happened.
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But now my evangel is that we should stop using javascript that it has so many congenital defects.
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It really is a smelly language.
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There's just a lot of crap in it and it still may be for its field of application, the best language in the world for doing that kind of stuff.
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But that's not good enough.
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We should be moving on to the next generation of languages.
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It used to be that we'd get a new computer languages about every generation I started with FORTRAN and then C and C and java and javascript and so on.
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And then it kind of stopped.
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There are still people developing languages, but nobody cares, one person can make a programming language, a really good one, but you can't get adoption for it.
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There are lots of terrible mistakes in the way that the web works in the way our operating systems work.
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And we can't get new ones.
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We're just stuck with this crap and, and they keep piling new features on everything and the new features always create new problems and it doesn't have to be like that.
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We could be using really clean operating systems with really clean languages and really clean runtime and doing all this stuff in a much more reliable way.
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But, but we don't seem to want to do that.
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I've done javascript for a generation.
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It's time for the next thing.
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I, I don't think that should be AAA, considered a radical point of view.
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I think it should be a normal evolutionary, view.
0:03 My story was that javascript is a much better language than anybody knows.
0:10 And that if we use it properly, we can do amazing things about it and it can change the world and in fact that happened.
0:19 But now my evangel is that we should stop using javascript that it has so many congenital defects.
0:28 It really is a smelly language.
0:31 There's just a lot of crap in it and it still may be for its field of application, the best language in the world for doing that kind of stuff.
0:44 But that's not good enough.
0:45 We should be moving on to the next generation of languages.
0:48 It used to be that we'd get a new computer languages about every generation I started with FORTRAN and then C and C and java and javascript and so on.
1:01 And then it kind of stopped.
1:03 There are still people developing languages, but nobody cares, one person can make a programming language, a really good one, but you can't get adoption for it.
1:12 There are lots of terrible mistakes in the way that the web works in the way our operating systems work.
1:19 And we can't get new ones.
1:22 We're just stuck with this crap and, and they keep piling new features on everything and the new features always create new problems and it doesn't have to be like that.
1:33 We could be using really clean operating systems with really clean languages and really clean runtime and doing all this stuff in a much more reliable way.
1:45 But, but we don't seem to want to do that.
1:49 I've done javascript for a generation.
1:53 It's time for the next thing.
1:55 I, I don't think that should be AAA, considered a radical point of view.
1:59 I think it should be a normal evolutionary, view.