[Info-vax] basic BASIC question

[Dan Cross]

In article <67a4cc2d$0$708$14726298 at news.sunsite.dk>,
Arne Vajhøj  <arne at vajhoej.dk> 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.

Server side Javascript does not run on the browser.

>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.

Typescript is a better language.  JavaScript should
have been better than it was, but that shippe has sailed,
and the story has been told many times: it was ten days
from conception to ship, and the consequent lack of
polish shows.

	- Dan C.