On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 11:41 PM, Brendan Eich <[email protected]> wrote: > > Those languages forked and some modernized (I remember Fortran 77). Those > are all quite a bit older than JS. I would also suggest they are for the > most part stunning successes. We've learned a lot from them. >
Yes, but we'll also want people to *want* to use a language. Not just use it because eons ago something has been written in them and now there is no way out. JS has to keep pace or it will end up like those languages, some relic from the past that nobody uses if they can possibly avoid it. I don't think the mission brief of JS can be "The best language you hate using but can't avoid using anyway."
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