Why JavaScript Can't Scale
JavaScript is the most widely used programming language in the world, but that popularity comes with tradeoffs. JavaScript is accessible, flexible, and everywhere, yet increasingly fragile at scale.
The origins of JS trace back to Netscape’s rushed creation of a scripting language for web browsers, branded as JavaScript despite no relation to Java, and now Oracle has control of the Java AND JavaScript trademarks through their acquisition of Sun Microsystems... despite not actively developing products under the JavaScript name.
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00:00 - Intro - The Ikea of languages
00:07 - Oracle and JavaScript
01:23 - JavaScript libraries
02:25 - Frameworks in JavaScript
03:01 - Is Typescript slower than JavaScript?
03:51 - Node.js as a backend
04:55 - How people start with JavaScript
05:28 - Outro
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