Multiple generations of your family will be long dead before last JS instruction gets executed. Unless there's going to happen a global thermonuclear war. I still bet on JS surviving over most humans.
replyThe same is true of COBOL and Fortran. But also for most purposes, they are practically* dead.
reply* With the one exception of BLAS which is widely used via NumPy
I review many sites/month from different clients. They are all using some form of JavaScript.
replyIt's like PHP, it will never die.
"Death" is hard to define for a programming language. It's tempting to say "the last time anyone writes it", or maybe "runs it", but to put that in biological terms that seems like defining "death" for a person as "the last chemical bond that was part of their body is broken"... sure, it'll happen someday, but all the properties we associate with the term "death" happen rather soon than that.
reply> It's like PHP, it will never die.
replyI predict that PHP will live a long life, but not as long as C, and I predict JavaScript will have a lifespan closer to C's than PHP's.
It’s also relevant that LLMs have so much JavaScript training data that I don’t see a world where we’re not still using JavaScript.
replyThe JS death and AI bubble are two events I keep hearing about but will never come.
replyThe AI bubble is now, maybe you mean the AI bubble pop
replyYes sorry, bubble pop
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