Podcast 240: JavaScript is ready to get its own place
This week we chat about tiptoeing out of lockdown, a leadership change at Magic Leap, and where Node.js and JavaScript sit as they turn 11 and 25-years-old, respectively. Plus, Boo.com, and throwbacks to the callbacks of the past.
Episode Notes
Has there ever been a tech startup that raised just shy of $3 billion, inflation-adjusted for any era, while barely making a ripple with actual customers? Magic Leap just pocketed a fresh $350 million in funding, on the condition that its co-founder and CEO Rony Abovitz, agree to step aside and allow new leadership to take the reins. We chat AR/VR, dot-com flameouts, and why crazy tech is worth believing in.
Sara hips us to the 11th anniversary of Node.js and the 25th anniversary of JavaScript. The latter has the distinction of being the only language to appear in the top 10 for most loved and most hated languages on our 2020 developer survey.
Paul and Sara reminisce about JavaScript callbacks. Hard work builds character, don’t ya know.
This episode was recorded before the recent protests, and so does not contain any discussion of the current events roiling the United States. We will touch on it in future episodes, but you can find Stack Overflow’s statement on it here.
If you would like a written transcript of this episode, it’s available here.
Tags: bulletin, javascript, magic leap, node.js, stackoverflow, the stack overflow podcast
9 Comments
No, “JavaScript”. Not “Javascript”
https://pmortensen.eu/world/EditOverflow.php?LookUpTerm=Javascript
Enable / install a spell checker in the web browser (though it is more cumbersome than it ought to be).
Fixed, thanks for the catch.
“This episode was recorded before the recent **riots**,”
Can “riots” in the show notes be changed to “protests” or “peaceful protests”? Citing “riots” or “looting” just pulls attention away from the important work that is being done by so many people.
They are rioting and looting though… 10+ people dead
Please reflect upon your use of “They” & take care not to homogenize folks based upon superficial traits.
Have you tried using jQuery?
I still remember first & fresh post WWW times where you could clearly see both js and vbs severely competing in old static HTML pages, you would see same side with and this competition was proeminent and visible to every developer.
Now there is no need for that attribute “language” anymore, and js has even compilers of its own,
Congrats JS for this outstanding victory brought to you by your own community (to which I do belong).
I misunderstood the title and thought there is now a new StackOverflow for JavaScript only.
Yep, me too, I understood the Title exactly like @Konrad, (featured prominently from the SO Forum), and I was coming to react that this was “not a good idea”…
But OK, no New Sub-Forum then for JS, good News…! (The List of all 180 (?) Sub-Forums on SO is already way too large…, I don’t find it very “usable”…)