>10-15 years ago
>it will be cool to load programs in browser with JavaScript!
>now
>JS is shit
What happened in the world?
>>62279474
Remember the HotJava browser? One of the goals for it was that it would be constantly extended to have new features by every site you visited, because they would all supply java code to handle their custom graphics formats, and any interactive elements.
Not just the simple plugin model; far less restrictions in a per-site sandbox.
>>62279474
JS isn't shit, just the people using it.
React / Native is changing everything.
>>62279528
this.
people import 6 libraries and 5 frameworks because they need one method from each
We are now at a point where JavaScript web "apps" run worse than the notoriously awful Java applets of yesteryear.
>>62279474
Why is letting random websites run code on my computer a good idea
>>62281417
If I remember it right, people were amused by the idea that you can run anything in any browser, so you wouldn't need to make much efforts for porting the software.
Isn't that we've come to, though?
>>62281496
So, like Java?
Front end devs are not really programmers, so they just put any shit framework they find (can't write anything more complicated by themselfs) no matter how slow the page will load
>>62282755
Kinda, but everyone bashed Java for being slow and being a security hole.