Problem: Javascript has almost no standard library. Solution: Thousands of community-supported libraries of wildly varying quality. Problem: Javascript has no packaging or a linker to tie those packages together. Problem: Javascript won't run outside the browser. Solution: V8 Problem: Javascript is single-thread by design. Solution: Asynchronous programming, node.js Problem: Callback Hell Problem: The DOM is too slow for video games. Solution: Canvas Problem: Javascript is too slow for video games. Solution: Use an assembly-like subset of Javascript called asm.js Problem: asm.js is basically unwritable by humans. Problem: Prototypal Inheritance is pants-on-head stupid. (That's right, I said it) Problem: Web resources need to be minified and zipped for performance. Solutions: Hundreds of community supported build tools of wildly varying quality. Problem: Grunt Solution: Gulp Problem: Gulp Problem: Machine-generated code is more difficult to debug. Problem: Async is still a nightmare, huh? Problem: Ballooning project size and complexity. Problem: Output runs very slowly on mobile devices. Problem: Javascript still doesn't do everything. Solution: Electron, PhoneGap, FireFoxOS ---- Cube Drone and Miloslav are digging in a giant hole. Cube Drone: How is digging going to get us out of this hole? Miloslav: Where I am from, the point of digging is not freedom from digging.

Relentless Persistence - July 9, 2015, 9 a.m.

Problem: Compiled code isn't interpreted code, even if it compiles to interpreted code. Solution: Grunt watch Problem: Promises Solution: IOUs Problem: Javascript is a toy language that was tied to a document markup and somehow this has become the universal runtime of the internet. Problem: At this point, the ecosystem around Javascript is so densely layered and frequently changing that maintenance of any project over any significant period of time is going to be a nightmare. — javascript cube-drone miloslav

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