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The State Of JavaScript: Introduction

posted by cmn32480 on Tuesday October 11 2016, @12:03PM   Printer-friendly
from the noscript-makes-this-tougher dept.

"exec" writes:

Depending on who you ask, right now JavaScript is either turning into a modern, reliable language, or a bloated, overly complex dependency hell. Or maybe both?

What's more, there's just so many options: Do you use React or Angular 2? Do you really need Webpack? And what's this month's recommended way of dealing with CSS?

Like you, I spent far too many hours reading about all this, and at the end I still wasn't sure. So I decided to create a survey to see what everybody else thought. It seems like I must've hit a nerve, because I got over 9000 answers in just over two weeks!

Further down in the article, the survey results are listed, though not in an easily scrape-able format. Oddly enough, the site degrades gracefully, and does not require Javascript to be enabled.

http://stateofjs.com/2016/introduction/

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 11 2016, @12:53PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 11 2016, @12:53PM (#412917)

    JavaScript is whatever it is to you. If you're a developer it's good and bad, if you're a site visitor it can be good and bad, yadda yadda yadda.

    There are web applications that require it, which is fine because those web apps are serving a specific purpose for a specific clientele. Overbloating your website with JavaScript is not a very visitor friendly way to treat them. Of course advertisers, tracker and data aggregators don't give a fuck about the visitors and just want to be able to sell their stats and data to someone down the line.

    So, in conclusion, JavaScript is here to stay no matter how you feel about it.

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