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Will JavaScript die as a development platform?

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Moderator asks whether JavaScript will die as a development platform, becoming a compilation target for 'better' languages like Elm, PureScript, ClojureScript, or TypeScript. Panel answer: library authors will keep using vanilla JS while application developers use higher-level tools; JavaScript probably won't die but will become primarily a compilation result. Others add JS may become less important but is too tied to the DOM to disappear.

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JavaScript likely survives (too tied to the DOM) but increasingly exists only as a compilation target.
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Framed in terms of JavaScript becoming a compilation target.
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JavaScript/Frontend Panel at wroclove.rb 2018 2026-04-17 16:18
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