The Weird History of JavaScript 

I like how kyle simpson explained it. But yes javascript is the language of choice. I used to do PHP but I got sick of $$$$ dollar signs and how ugly it looked. Typescript and java is ugly too me. C# is okay.

just to inform. the second video in the playlist is : Liveaboard Century Old Sailboat Tour: Circumnavigation & Single Handing Ocean Crossings ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-zNh56ZKa4HY.html I guess added by mistake. Also, thanks for course

soundiscomforting - Jarvis Johnson

No you can put a carpet in a car

Bird

@@petersantos6395 Yeah! And you can put Java inside a Javascript. But we don't talk about it anymore.. (Java Applets)

Pretty close if you are aladdin

Every 6 minutes we stray further from god.

it's the same hype that PHP had before in 2007

@@TheNotedHero oh no.

Every 6 minutes, a web developer job advertisement gets another bullet point in the requirements section.

@@TheNotedHero Better update your code, oh.no.js v2.0.0 has just been released

Developers in the 90s: I know about encoding and JCL; I can make a decent living until retirement Developers in the 20s: I've already been working 3 years within those full stack frameworks; I should learn some new ones before I get doomed

Ny friend just asked this question a few days ago.

ah, css flex?

display: flex; justify-content: center; align-items: center;

@@abhinavjha3082 it's embarrassing how many times I've looked that up

FB...

I’m dying XD

I like your profile pic... can I know abput thr character?

@@edberaga It's Kiryu Moeka

@@ltxr9973 thanks!

In internet explorer we had to use ActiveX or something

They redeemed with TypeScript

@@thefakedeal yes. I heard of it.

@@agenticmark What...TS is a strict superset of JS, not VBScript

"XMLHttpRequest" is a worthy opponent for "public static void main(String[] args)"

Agree 100%. Never name your product after the popular tech or buzz words of the current era.

@@Fireship pffft watch me create BlockchainScript

@@Neoclassicalmaese that's BS

@@GMLtouch can you imagine? "What did you do all day?" "Code some BS"

Enrique Arzamendi haha nice catch

Haha! Last minute decision, but you know what you're talking about.

@eddiee usually verified channels get spammed with replies like "oMg wHaT ArE yOU dOinG hEre?"

@@Fireship OMG WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?

Good call!

dont forget, Al Gore invented internet

I got that chubbyemu reference. Thumbs up.

a man wrote a shitty language in 10 days and it is the cancer of the programming world until now

@@TitusM7 JS has changed a lot since then. Now it becomes quite acceptable, it only can get better

@@hungothanh4913 don't think it is especially now that you make a small app and get 7 billion dependencies look at that abomination electron and the apps you get with it. I'll be fine with it if it stays in web only

I mean your icon is a programming language

@@Flowtail I think you missed his point

Fif Gallag say it with me now: Java Script

Is that because curly braces scare you?

PythonTron of course, my mistake, i forgot computer scientists can’t read; no worries i can spell it out: “it’s not shocking that somebody who’s into coding would watch a video about coding” Sorry, just salty about all the poorly commented code i need to sift through for my group project tonight...

I remember back when I was trying to learn Macromedia Flash 8/AS2 so that I could build flash games for my phone. Macromedia Flash actually powered the internet cartoons from the early 2000s, and I actually miss a bunch of them.

@@YeOldeKamikaze I still have one book about Macromedia Flash 5 and onde about Macromedia Flash MX! And countless magazines...

@@YeOldeKamikaze like zombie college :)

Good call, thanks for the correction.

This is the difference between ActionScript 2 and 3, I programmed using both. AS3 was basically ES4, entirely different from AS2. It was a pain for Flash developers to adopt AS3 because most came from a designer background, and AS2 was quite easy to understand, whereas AS3 brought a whole lotta functionalities but was also far more technical, like a regular programming language. AS3 eventually took Flash to new heights, but probably contributed a lot to its final downfall, most notably, security issues.

BracketGuySerious ‘Low level’ means the code interacts with the hardware more closely. The term Low level and high level could really use a renaming as it implies a level of superiority which is actually not the case.

@@paulbrooks5612 Regardless of the levels being in superiority or abstraction they are both effected by time.

@@paulbrooks5612 OP probably didn't take it as any kind of value judgement. it's just that by the classical definition anything that isn't symbolic assembler was high level. C++ to be considered "low-level" could be seen as sign of times of ever increasing abstraction away from hardware.

Don't worry I'm only 18 and I'm still programming in Assembly for fun :) and yeah C++ is like medium-to-high-level imo

@@willowFFMPEG Back in the olden days C was considered a high-level language, not unlike the conservatives of today would have been the progressists of yesterday, and JS will be considered a low-level language in 15 years

I hated javascript for years because it was so difficult to understand. But finally I'm getting the hang of it and now when I look at the languages I've learned, javascript and c++ is the best. But please don't forget about HTML5, CSS3, PHP, MySQL, Perl, LUA, and various others too!

@@battosaijenkins946 please tell me how did you learn JavaScript it's being hard for me to understand but everyone is saying that it is easy to understand I need someone to show the tricks please

@@bodyworkout3078 You have to keep at it. Keep doing the examples and tutorials and work on mini projects over and over. It took me several years just to finally understand it and maybe 1 more year to really get into it and now I love it. Or go c++ first, its so difficult that going to js is easy.

@@battosaijenkins946 learn prototypes first in poc codes.

@@battosaijenkins946 is C++ unreal difficult or it is not so hard as seen at first?

qrpnxz What was it replaced by?

@@deviant7100 JavaScript lmao

@@deviant7100 HTML5

cultural icon? more like a technology hated by developers for its security issues as well as hated by users for its numerous bugs and bad performance

There are only few options for animations besides flash though

Indeed. R.E.S.P.E.C.T. @fireship

Thanks! And so much was left out... The JS ecosystem as all kinds of storylines to follow.

@DéJi Vu can you make a video of your own?

You're right, my bad 🙃

Also doesn't support "map", lol.

Then just dereference your pointers manually beforehand

@@JBuchmann Doesn't support map... just import the library that does give that to you! "_underscore" ftw! (There are several not just _, of course.)

That definitely confused me. I was like, wait what, wasn't he just talking about ES5??

If you're on windows only - yes. They can eat 2gb and more. But on Linux they use around 500mb.

Igor Ordecha I have linux (ubuntu), the situation is worse than windows on my laptop.

@@Tau-qr7f rly? Do you mean ram usage is higher or overall experience is worse?

When u use chrome and think u use the best browser bc google used their market share to rise chromes market share..

Sizlo Mc Donnerbogen Who said he/she was using chrome in this conversation? I only said that I don’t use chromium browsers and that was the only word similar to chrome.

Great time to be a developer!

hello callbacks, hello async functions

@@KewaiiGamer I was thinking of the extreme weak typing

@@KewaiiGamer Oh and the hellacious default prototype-based object system which was wisely supplemented with proper classes in ES6

@@muhammadal-khwarizmi6933 ES6 classes were so much better

@@muhammadal-khwarizmi6933 oh god you know nothing jon snow... "proper classes" haha.

Apart from flash

@@madghostek3026 Flash did improve. It went away.

Thank the marketing geniuses over at AOL :)

So weird to think that the internet is really still so young. We milked the shit out of those AOL free trials but paying $10 a month for EarthLink was a much more stable connection. AOL you would have to disconnect and dial up again over and over until you got a decent bitrate.

Add vuetify on top and boom, you re making whole apps in hours.

@@3rmag458 if that works for you, sure. Personally I don't use it.

I use it with Redux 🙌🏻 Check it out if you haven't.

@@GMLtouch I use Vuex.

It's just js packages

Now the whole Google's focus on the browser makes more sense. I knew this for a couple of years now, but browsers will be the OS of the future. They have translated whole UE4 into the browser using WA a year ago or so if I remember. Really nice 1h video.

Next step: IPFS

I hope JS dies for webassembly and languages come up on top of it just like Kotlin did on top of JVM

@@Alex-dn7jq JS doesn't need to die for that, actually both compliment each other. Javascript is like Groovy for the JVM.

@@autohmae If groovy went super slow and bloated that argument would have been valid

i remenber in school showing off to my friends I know Javascript but in fact I just new JQuery, I didnt know how to do a single document.querySelector in vanilla Javascript hahaha.

@@markstein2845 To be fair, you can know Javascript without knowing vanilla selectors. I claim to know JS but I definitely have to use a reference for crappy vanilla DOM selectors.

JQuery is shit. I hate this library since there were so many idiots who learned jQuery and named themselves javascript programmers but didn’t know a shit about Javascript itself.

Half of stackoverflow questions are about jquery

@@phat80 same thing is going on with all that fency JS frameworks like vuejs or react

anything is more robust and less quirky than js;

It was fun, I have loose plans for the history of Firebase next :)

Yeah, it's almost as if it was created for making simple status bar scrollers and not proper applications. They should just rip it off the browsers and replace with something faster and bettet such as LuaJIT.

@@UltimatePerfection Indeed, the creator of JavaScript did not anticipate its popularity. But you have WASM now, which enables you to use whatever you like, there's no need to complain.

@@khai96x There is, until JS support gets ripped out of browsers and the developers will have to either use wasm with a proper programming language or make static html pages with only CSS to make them look nice.

Y’all are smoking some good stuff. WASM currently requires JavaScript to bootstrap, and has no direct access to the DOM. JS is fine. It’s the developers who are the issue. If you need a strongly typed language look into TypeScript.

ephektz fine isn’t how I would describe a language where most linters will not even let you use most features of the language.

but you're running with js

@@ENXJ For everyday work Python. I know, no fair comparison for the use case. For high performance I want to learn C++.

learn rust instead of c++ and compile it to webassembly to get rid of js => winwin :)

@@Mefistofy So wait, you hate javascript but love python? What exactly do you like about python that you do not have in JS? They are no that different really (dynamic types, support for imperative, functional and object oriented programing, everything is an object, garbage collected, wide spread, a lot of libraries for pretty much everything, etc, you can even get rid of the c style brakets syntax using something like coffeescript, so that even the syntax is similar to python)

@@sebastiangudino9377 Perhaps perspective from the opposite side can help. I like JS but I'm not a fan of Python. For me, the syntax of Python is just really weird and totally unlike C, and relying on indentation for correct running of code freaks me a out a bit (even though I always fanatically indent my code correctly anyway).

legends say* you can't put 's' addition in verb since the subject is plural

@Ruddy Julien Nouwezem Legends say no he doesn't

Awesome! An understanding of the spec evolution is usually a trait of a good JS programmer, IMO.

Indeed

Normal

avi12 Firefox OS was almost that!

I remember laughing at the idea of writing an os in Javascript. I don't anymore

@@basit876 I'm still laughing because Javascript is fucking trash.

node-os.com/

@@pancakesupreme5071 we're laughing at you

We didn't though. It's still simple if you want it to be, and the complexity that is there doesn't go very deep.

People act as if 10000 framework is only a problem in the JS ecosystem

Lisp