JavaScript wins again

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/06/13/194254/Devs-Worried-Microsoft-Will-Dump-NET
joelholdsworth passes along a story summing up concerns from developers that "Microsoft seems to be set on adopting HTML5 and JavaScript as its main application development tools for Windows 8," and asking, "is this the end of .NET?" The article continues: "To bet the farm on HTML5 and JavaScript being the next big thing is a good bet, but it's not a bet that Microsoft can easily take and make good. Even if the world does turn to JavaScript and platform-independent apps, this still means that Microsoft loses. The problem is that Microsoft needs a technology that gives it an edge, and HTML5/JavaScript is everybody's edge. Microsoft developers feel left in the dark and very angry at the way they are being treated. You only have to browse the Microsoft forums to discover how strong the feeling is: forum post 1, forum post 2 and an open letter." Reader Sla$hPot points out a similar story at OS News.

Where the fuck is my WebGL support?

>>2
No fucking shit, plus the lack of HTML5 codecs. WebGL is a bigger problem, what the fuck Microsoft?!

>>2
U MENA WebD3D

"Microsoft seems to be set on adopting HTML5 and JavaScript as its main application development tools for Windows 8,"
what the fuck, what the fuck, WHAT THE FUCK, WHAT THE FUCK

but why?

now microsoft is going to put all these useless features into their own javascript implementation and they'll slowly leak into the standard. it's over, js is finished.

long live python!

Common Lisp.NET

>>7
Too bad that Microsoft's share in the browser market is steadily dwindling year by year, so they having enough influence to shit up the JS standard is doubtful.

That being said, JavaScript is already plenty shitty even without MS.

>>9
you FUCKING NIGGER yopu have NOP IDEA what oyur talking aBOut

>>1
That sounds disgusting

>.11
NIGEIRN FAGGOT

.NET?
MORE LIKE .NEET NOW AMIRITE

>>10 is correct: JavaScript is a good language

In 2020 you will have machines running a undocumented, closed VM on a undocumented processor architecture with a Javascript OS with WebGL / HTML5.

If you don't believe me look at GPGPUs.

>>15
is this good or bad

>>17
Bad. The user cannot have freedom in such an environment.

all hail Node.js

>>19
All hail http://dis.4chan.org/script/prettify.js

>>20
var LISP_KEYWORDS = "defun";
That's a bit lazy compared to the other languages handled.

>>15
Just because Linux coders were too autistic to ask PowerVR and the ARM Mali people to open their specs doesn't mean the future is doomed. We shall build bigger and better autists. With them, we shall rule the world! Ahahahahaha!

>>21
They're only missing     ( and  ), but then all other codes would be coloured in an autistic way.