Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26285826

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Can't be everyone, how do you know the numbers? How many Office users actually used VB? MS famously stifled competition in internet browsers. 1990s numbers still won't give a fair picture.

>The Web fixed all that, albeit at the cost of cratering developer productivity, a massive increase in complexity and higher barriers to entry for new devs.

Why blame the web for higher barrier to entry. JS is doing fine. See a few surveys for popular languages:  https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2020#most-popular-...

https://madnight.github.io/githut/

I think OP meant it as browsers that run JS. The built in console is so useful for testing/practice. You can run JS without any setup on most popular OS - Win/Linux/Mac.

You can practice JS in console while viewing YouTube tutorial or following a JS blog/ Mozilla dev page.

All the alternatives I know are backed by for-profit corporations. So privacy concerns still remain. Few notable ones I came across are/were:

Hike (was shutdown last week) JioChat ShareChat

>At Amazon headquarters, however, they're probably popping open the champagne.

>Amazon, however, is probably grinning like the Cheshire Cat.

The author is not doing justice to his job as a reporter. If you want to opine then separate it from the facts. Amazon which has nothing to do with the ruling gets depicted as a villain and Apple which actually is guilty doesn’t get its share of bad words. What is worse is that he starts to paint Amazon that way before he gives any of the details of ruling.

Is this correct ?

Now this is what I think. Facebook is interested in being a monopoly and this step will ensure its rivals don't get in (because facebook pays for it). This is what all the argument is about. Saying billion people will get free internet is just an eyewash. They don't give you full internet, just the part which serves their interest.

Carriers should not control/discrimintate internet access. This should apply to other companies as well.

Regarding the package management comment. If it is an experiment let results get in. Some people consider vendoring bad yet others find some use in it. If vendoring happens like it or not it wont make dependency management bad as a whole.

If you ask me following is the checklist it passes:

1. Low memory footprint/good GC

2. Concurrency (goroutines) builtin

3. Great dependency (package) management

4. Compiled/closer to bare metal

5. Fast compilation

If you check other languages against the list they lack at least one of the above. If you feel any other language is better suited please tell.