Re: "Team" members wanted

This is where trendy is going to get us:
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/09/saving-the-world-from-code/540393/

On Sun, Oct 29, 2017 at 10:23 AM, Eric Prud'hommeaux <eric@w3.org> wrote:

> * Richard Levenberg CoSo <richard.levenberg@cosocloud.com> [2017-10-27
> 17:56+0000]
> > Trendy is not a valuable trait of an implementation language. Solid
> libraries, tooling and oversight would be more attractive. Java has those,
> JS does not.
>
> Trendy is great because it gives you access to an army of open-source
> developers who are excited to keep refining programming patterns and
> frameworks. Oversight is great because it greatly reduces the chaos of the
> trendy, at the expense of some of the innovation. The reality here is
> nuanced and so should be our diatribes.
>
> Personally, before setting off too far down the java road, I'd spend a day
> on a scala tutorial. It's pretty innovatative, encourages good programming
> practice (functional programming, switches on n-ary tuples, etc.), cuts
> down a lot on ceremony, and allows you to use and provide java libraries.
> That said, I program almost exclusively in javascript now 'cause I want
> stuff to run in a browser and I do a lot of DOM manipulation (currently out
> of scope for WebAssembly). See? Nuance.
>
>
> > r
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: David Booth [mailto:david@dbooth.org]
> > Sent: Friday, October 27, 2017 9:49 AM
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> > Subject: Re: "Team" members wanted
> >
> > On 10/27/2017 11:26 AM, Sebastian Samaruga wrote:
> > > [ . . . ] The whole project is
> > > planned to be implemented in Java
> >
> > I'm curious: why Java?   Have you considered JavaScript / ES6?
> > JavaScript is now the most widely used programming language[1], and it
> now has very solid server-side support.  A more modern language may attract
> more volunteers also.  Unless there are over-riding concerns pushing you to
> Java, I would suggest considering JavaScript / ES6.
> >
> > 1.
> > https://stackify.com/trendiest-programming-languages-hottest-sought-
> programming-languages-2017/
> >
> > David Booth
> >
>
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