Yeah but with JS, you have to consider the browsers that are out there already. I think this is getting better now that IE is killed off, but there’s still a consideration about whether to use a new feature that doesn’t work on older browsers.
With C, it’s compiled so if you’re distributing the binary, you’re done. And if you’re sharing the source to another developer, that dev will be likely to be technically proficient enough to update gcc and any needed libraries to the right version to get it to compile.
When it’s an interpreted language that is interpreted by browsers made by different companies and organizations (so they have to agree on changes), with users not being reliable of keeping their browsers up to date, it’s going to be messy. Also there’s security concerns, you need to make sure when implementing the extension it won’t allow bad actors to make scripts to take over the users computer.
It’s not anyone’s fault, it’s just a significantly more difficult problem to extend a language that is going to be sent to user’s computer on the fly from arbitrary websites and have those extensions be reliable, secure, and consistent across the various companies implementing it.
Yeah but with JS, you have to consider the browsers that are out there already. I think this is getting better now that IE is killed off, but there’s still a consideration about whether to use a new feature that doesn’t work on older browsers.
With C, it’s compiled so if you’re distributing the binary, you’re done. And if you’re sharing the source to another developer, that dev will be likely to be technically proficient enough to update gcc and any needed libraries to the right version to get it to compile.
When it’s an interpreted language that is interpreted by browsers made by different companies and organizations (so they have to agree on changes), with users not being reliable of keeping their browsers up to date, it’s going to be messy. Also there’s security concerns, you need to make sure when implementing the extension it won’t allow bad actors to make scripts to take over the users computer.
It’s not anyone’s fault, it’s just a significantly more difficult problem to extend a language that is going to be sent to user’s computer on the fly from arbitrary websites and have those extensions be reliable, secure, and consistent across the various companies implementing it.