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Discussion on: DISCUSS: JavaScript just DIED! What language should replace it?

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GrahamTheDev

I would imagine one of the old school alternatives to JS would have appeared, Flash, WPF / SIlverlight, ActiveX, VBScript.

And if none of them won I am sure we as developers would have come up with workarounds etc.

I mean I created an animation without JavaScript, CSS or images recently, so I am pretty sure we would have adapted somehow as long as we had HTML (or yet again, a close alternative)!

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Danny Engelman

But Flash ActionScript was ECMAScript... and JavaScript.. is ECMAScript

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GrahamTheDev

Well that is fair enough, I mean it is 10+ years since I played with Flash and so my memory obviously didn’t connect the dots!

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Danny Engelman • Edited

Fun fact; ES4 was, partially, implemented in Flash, but JavaScript skipped that version.

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Thalita G.

Shameless plug, but I take it! :p Your post was absolutely genius and I still think about it! Next up you're gonna make an entire framework that uses no HTML, CSS, or JS or something. 🤣

It's hard for me to imagine the web would revert back to these oldies. There's a good reason why some of them aren't even supported on browsers any longer, haha. But hey, who knows!

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GrahamTheDev

I mean it was so silly I had to share it. But yeah a bit of a shameless plug I admit!

I am building a website that only developers can use...watch this space for that one 🤣🤣🤣