- mkwarman ( @mkwarman@lemmy.mkwarman.com ) English68•8 months ago
If we’re still using JavaScript in the year 275,760 we deserve the resulting epoch collapse
- palordrolap ( @palordrolap@kbin.social ) 18•8 months ago
Bold of you to assume that humanity will even exist at that point. In fact, it’d be pretty bold to assume we’ll exist in 2757; forget those last two digits.
- Big P ( @peter@feddit.uk ) English20•8 months ago
I’m not even sure we’ll be existing in 2057 at this rate
- mifan ( @mifan@feddit.dk ) 9•8 months ago
Or even make it till 20:57
- lorty ( @lorty@lemmy.ml ) 10•8 months ago
Javascript will subsume all other languages by then. Humanity won’t even know that others existed, or even what it is. It’ll just be called Script, the way you tell computers what to do when the AI doesn’t understand your prompts correctly.
- 📛Maven ( @Maven@lemmy.sdf.org ) English9•8 months ago
Epochalypse…
- _dev_null ( @_dev_null@lemmy.zxcvn.xyz ) 5•8 months ago
Who knew The Cosmic AC would be running js.
- bjornsno ( @bjornsno@lemm.ee ) 1•8 months ago
Thanks, I love oddly comforting techno theology
- MystikIncarnate ( @MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca ) English21•8 months ago
I’m still thinking about the 2037 problem.
- aperson ( @aperson@beehaw.org ) English4•8 months ago
2038*
- vrighter ( @vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de ) 7•8 months ago
so is anything in any computer
- pixelscript ( @pixelscript@lemmy.ml ) English6•8 months ago
The replacement for the JavaScript Date API is on the cusp of finalization.
They just got an RFC proposal approved by the IETF for an extension to the way datetime strings should be serialized that adds support for non-Gregorian calendar systems. That seems to have been the last round of red tape holding them back. Now it’s just a handful of bugfix PRs to merge and browsers can begin shipping implementations unflagged.
You can watch the progress here if you find it interesting. In the meantime, there is a polyfill out now if you want to get started with it.