• nitefox@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

    The chrome javascript engine? V8 you mean? That’s used in Node, it basically powers most, if not all, of the modern web lol

    • kava@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Good point, I had forgotten node uses v8. It’s powering servers that run node, sure. Not every website uses node. Lemmy I think is rust backend and kbin uses PHP.

      But I mean browser specific rendering. They all follow ECMAScript standard but there are things outside of it. In the past __proto__, a way to get an object’s prototype, only worked in Spidermonkey. Or how the ECMAScript doesn’t specific what order the elements in a for…in loop shows up. Today these are little minor things

      They aren’t particularly important right now (besides hunting weird bugs) because Google follows the standards more or less. But give Google 100% control and you will start seeing dark patterns slip into the javascript itself

      • nitefox@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        The FE can, and probably, still uses node

        Anyway I agree with the sentiment, I use Firefox myself (actually at work I test just against Firefox lol)

      • nitefox@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Hence the modern. Most modern websites nowadays don’t use php anymore, at least for their FE

        • iopq@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          Laravel is modern enough. If you’re talking bleeding edge web dev, that’s actually on elixir with Phoenix

          Not sure how you count how “modern” something is considering PHP still has new versions and cut lots of releases