> When it comes to JavaScript, what's seen as "innovation" is usually just the language and ecosystem desperately trying to catch up with where everybody else was many years in the past.
That's true up to a point, but you're being a bit uncharitable. I'm thinking of a couple of solutions specifically:
- npm [1], which I hear a lot of good things about, while this is definitely not the case about many languages-specific build systems/package managers
- react [2], which is a nice approach to DOM manipulation (if not, maybe, the first of its kind)
And obviously, more and more languages compile to JS nowadays, or are on their way there.
That's true up to a point, but you're being a bit uncharitable. I'm thinking of a couple of solutions specifically:
- npm [1], which I hear a lot of good things about, while this is definitely not the case about many languages-specific build systems/package managers
- react [2], which is a nice approach to DOM manipulation (if not, maybe, the first of its kind)
And obviously, more and more languages compile to JS nowadays, or are on their way there.
1: https://www.npmjs.org/doc/cli/npm.html 2: http://facebook.github.io/react/