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Just browsing my photos from 10 years ago. I was amused when I browsed the university library computer science artificial intelligence shelf. ...I sometimes wish AI had stayed at this level. (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by umbraroze to c/[email protected]

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[–] umbraroze 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm literally on an internship training course where the Exercises Left For The Readers are implementing Number Guessing Games on the various technologies talked about on the course. I'm like "thanks, but I read about this particular exercise extensively the BASIC age. I'm not going to redo these things unless your training material will have little cartoon robots. Like, you know, in the Usborne books or something."

[–] Anticorp 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Why would an internship train you on an antiquated language that hasn't been used in decades?

[–] umbraroze 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Well they train me in JavaScript frameworks and such. I allege this knowledge will be useless in a few decades. Or even less so, based on my meagre knowledge so far.

[–] Anticorp 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

JavaScript is used on virtually every website on the planet today though. BASIC hasn't been used for anything in like 40 years.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

20-ish, rather. You can still find some legacy systems running some version of VisualBasic on Windows.

Also disagree with op, javascript is the current "lingua franca" of programming. Unless every browser decides to allow scripting in a less shotgun-your-foot language, javascript will remain widely used.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Unless every browser decides to allow scripting in a less shotgun-your-foot language, javascript will remain widely used.

It's called web assembly, and all the major browsers (Safari, Chrome, Firefox, Edge) now support it. That's not to say that Javascript is going to disappear, but other languages might take over much of its marketshare.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Even wasm relies on javascript and frankly, I see its existence as a failure of many layers. Machine code -> Operating system -> Browser -> WASM (emulated machine code)