Comments by "SmallSpoonBrigade" (@SmallSpoonBrigade) on "Will Javascript win? | John Carmack and Lex Fridman" video.

  1. Possibly, but people keep trying to replace it and there's been extremely limited success in doing so. The install base is just too large and it's just too good at what it does to attract the kind of talent and energy necessary to replace it. Most of the alternatives wind up having the same basic problems anyways. Plus, JavaScript today isn't he nightmare it was in the '90s where just about anything you wanted to do would require testing to see which browser was running the code and doing something different from whichever browser needed accomodations.
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  2. How do you manage scale and speed without efficiency? Saying that you want scale and speed without efficiency doesn't make much sense.
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