[Info-vax] basic BASIC question

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 2/6/2025 9:50 AM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 2/3/2025 1:24 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> On 2025-01-31, Dan Cross <cross at spitfire.i.gajendra.net> wrote:
>>> If you really want to have a good time, look at how
>>> JavaScript deals with this.  Things aren't just true
>>> or false, they're truthy and falsy, and sometimes Nan.
>>>
>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=et8xNAc2ic8
>>
>> And we use this crap to build critical websites that our society and
>> general way of life now depend on. :-(
>>
>> And some even think it's a good idea to run this server-side. :-(
> 
> JavaScript has had a huge market share in presentation layer
> in web applications for decades.
> 
> Either companies don't know how to profit maximize or
> JavaScript is/was a good choice for this type
> of code.
> 
> Small code bases, frequent releases and high user
> tolerance for small ooopses favor a language like
> JavaScript. Ada would not work well in this context
> from a business perspective.
> 
> Code bases are not small anymore though. And TypeScript
> has taken huge chunks of market share from
> JavaScript in recent years.

If you really want Ada for this, then:
  
https://blog.adacore.com/use-of-gnat-llvm-to-translate-ada-applications-to-webassembly

:-)

Arne