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Howard: Building web apps is much worse now than 15 years ago
“Much to my, you know, horror, the story around creating web applications is much worse now than it was 10 or 15 years ago, in terms of, like, if I say to a data scientist, here's how to create and deploy a web application, You know, either you have to learn Ja…”
McCloy: ChatGPT and most AI search indexers do not execute JavaScript
“Chatsby doesn't execute JavaScript. Most of the AI Search indexers and retrievers don't execute JavaScript. So if your content is not rendered on the server side it's typically not going to be available.”
Kirkos: JavaScript is immature for data transformation compared to Python
“JavaScript is pretty immature in terms of working with data. It doesn't have a lot of packages or tooling around transforming and working with data.”
Pai: Durable Objects are the first infrastructure-level JS actor model
“Durable objects have been around in Cloudflare for about four years now, and I think they are the world's first implementation of the actor model in infrastructure, the thing that Erlang Elixir made, like, super popular. Cloudflare got that out for JavaScript …”
Royzen: Phind Leads BigCode Leaderboard by 10 Points in Multi-Language Code
“All of our models are at the top of the big code leaderboard by far. It's not close, particularly in languages other than Python. We have a 10 point gap between us and the next best model on Java, JavaScript, I think C-sharp multilingual.”
Mlejnsky remains bullish on JavaScript and web developers driving AI adoption
“I still remain very bullish web developers and JavaScript world, TypeScript world, even though we have, like, a ton of usage from Python but there's so many web developers, and it's easier and easier to use LLMs. I really think that you need to cater to these …”
Simons: Single-Ecosystem AI Code Tools Move Faster via Error Databases
“And a lot of that comes down to having a giant database of common errors that you can maybe even fine tune stuff on at some point. Right? So doing that on, on one ecosystem, you can move a lot faster than if you're trying to support a lot of different language…”
Doshi: Mighty was abandoned because single-threaded JavaScript capped its potential
“One of the problems with Mighty was that JavaScript is single threaded in the browser. And what we learned, you know, the reason, reason why we kind of abandoned Mighty was because I didn't believe we could make a new kind of computer. We could have made some …”