I think frontend development is another big catalyst for JS being so widely used now. What we can do with the browser these days was impossible even 5 years ago. I hardly use native apps anymore. Most apps are browser based these days and increasingly so. Another catalyst is that the JS community is not afraid to innovate and adopt the latest techs. Good example is GraphQL. I believe that most early adoptions were implemented in JS. The Apollo library for the client and server is still mostly written in JS and serves as the gold standard for graphQL implementation. ES6 and beyond have also made JS a joy to use. What’s not to like?
@Learningthroughteaching3 жыл бұрын
What browser apps are you using ?
@alivepenmods2 жыл бұрын
We definitely have had different experiences. Any pwa I used I hated. Also the web pages on my laptop have never been so slow and buggy. To me, JS made the web beautiful and terrible to use.
@brigadut10 ай бұрын
JavaScript is popular now not because for the frontend development but you can use it on the server side thanks to nodeJs
@luigi90643 жыл бұрын
Web development is the most popular subset of Software development atm. If you're gonna learn web dev ,then you need to learn javascript. That's the simple reason it's so popular. No need to complicate things
@videovoila66163 жыл бұрын
Why javascript is/became the most popular for web dev?
@luigi90643 жыл бұрын
@@videovoila6616 It’s basically the only relevant client side programming language.
@luigi90643 жыл бұрын
@@videovoila6616 so if you’re gonna build even basic static websites, you’ll probably add some JavaScript
@videovoila66163 жыл бұрын
@@luigi9064 why became the only relevant client side programming language ?....(the answer seams like, it is popular because it is popular.)
@luigi90643 жыл бұрын
@@videovoila6616 you still don’t get it. Java, C, c++ and so on were never used as a client side programming language. That’s just not what they’re meant for. Nobody is asking why JavaScript more popular than VBscript or other client side programming languages. They’re asking why JavaScript is the most popular programming language in the world and my original comment was stating the reason.
@abeidiot3 жыл бұрын
Honestly I think it's the performance. The event based model just made reactive backend programming a natural fit. It took years for other industry standard frameworks like spring to mature and provide the same thing
@cheesesoup28943 жыл бұрын
Javascript just wants to work, thats why.
@illwill20013 жыл бұрын
Love this channel Lex!
@arichayo41223 жыл бұрын
React native is so awesome, but it wouldn't be possible without rich!
@jbheselyoutubization3 жыл бұрын
I have written code with z80 Assember, Lisp, Pascal, C and Python and someway I had to use javascript, because of the browser. But I like it most of all, allthough I acutally write coffeescript, which takes away a lot of syntax noise. functions as first class objects is one of my favorits and the json. It took my some time to get the async and sometimes I fall back in synchron style, where async would apply better. This led me to change to javascript in the backend too.
@ironcharlie28902 жыл бұрын
Tell me more. Ever use assembly language?
@jbheselyoutubization2 жыл бұрын
@@ironcharlie2890 yes, as I wrote. I did quite a bit on z80. There was a competition between us peers with 6502 and z80. Lateron I used 8086 for a short time, but soon, the higher languages took over.
@Megalomaniakaal3 жыл бұрын
Because it was the one that ran in web browsers and was _realllllllllly easy_ to get started with and to learn. But also the right time. But then also got picked up as the basis for EMCA Script standard basis and last but not least, rather most important of all, it became basis for ActionScript in flash.
@spoddie Жыл бұрын
because in the early days of the Internet you would open a web page and your computer would stop while started a Java Machine, you waited patiently to discover it was just so they could animate a spinning world.
@sonnybrown47583 жыл бұрын
Php crappy? I think it’s a great language.
@minocs3 жыл бұрын
I like PHP too!
@henrymach3 жыл бұрын
Because it's supported by all browsers.
@serhendiefendi2 жыл бұрын
Isn't so obvious? So clear JS doesn't similar any other languages because there is no alternative for browser scripting and internet start with browser its a Touchstone
2 жыл бұрын
Merhaba :) Sizce akıllı telefon uygulamaları web uygulamaların sonunu getirebilir mi? Malum herkes şimdi akıllı telenuyla yatıp kalkıyor
@dixztube Жыл бұрын
@ those are probably mostly written with js libraries I’d assume but not sure
@serhendiefendi2 жыл бұрын
The aswer is what happened to webassembly project it was promise every programming language can behaviour like JavaScript but for now until that time it's special and unique may in the near future no need to it
@undefinedvariable80853 жыл бұрын
Why is JavaScript so popular? It's the most accessible.
@pietrosavastano99403 жыл бұрын
PHP laravel is the future and the past
@alivepenmods2 жыл бұрын
It won't. Ever since Nikita popov left PHP-core. The guy basically made 80% of the PHP advancements in the last 15 years. It's not about finding talented C developers. It's about finding someone who understands the wrecked and undocumented Zend internals. Even Facebook found it easier to rewrite the whole compiler and VM than contributing to php-core. I've been a PHP dev for a long time, and I'm starting to move away.
@jorge1869 Жыл бұрын
@@alivepenmods dude🤣🤣🤣🤣
@knofi70523 жыл бұрын
It's always about the right tool at the right time. Unfortunately, only time is telling! :)
@ironcharlie28902 жыл бұрын
We tell the time. It doesn't tell us.
@stormysurge9083 Жыл бұрын
It's 10:14am
@freddiejackson69583 жыл бұрын
Accessibility
@FirstLast-gk6lg3 жыл бұрын
*sad JavaScript noises*
@alexforzani103 жыл бұрын
My man
@ygjt76v0----- Жыл бұрын
Because java name make popular?
@HavokR5052 жыл бұрын
X86 is arguably the worst architecture around. Yes. yes it is. thats why its so good.
@rossthemusicandguitarteacher3 жыл бұрын
Javascript isn't great but it sure has the ecosystem to thrive... I prefer not to use it if possible.
@MrAfusensi3 жыл бұрын
I'd say it's great. Especially these days.
@rossthemusicandguitarteacher3 жыл бұрын
@@MrAfusensi I just prefer compiled/strongly typed languages.
@stankozubenko85203 жыл бұрын
@@rossthemusicandguitarteacher I completely agree. I just wasted so much time trying to set up a core backend, finally surrendering to NodeJS because everything is geared towards it on there lol
@rossthemusicandguitarteacher3 жыл бұрын
@@stankozubenko8520 Check out the .Net solutions for backend, they are pretty awesome.
@MrAfusensi3 жыл бұрын
@@rossthemusicandguitarteacher me too, that's why use typescript daily. Tbh I rarely use vanilla js, and am mostly doing back end (nodejs) these days