You believe that HTML won't be deprecated by 2040, but JS will? You also believe archive.org won't make an effort to store JS files within that timeframe?
The reality is that the modern web depends on JS, and the argument of deprecation won't change that anytime soon. We're moving forward, not backward.
On a technical note, there is quite some effort in rendering React/Angular apps on the server in case it's serving an outdated browser.
Edit: just realized that of course storing JS files isn't the solution to archive.org's challenge, it's storing server responses.
>One thing I'm absolutely flabbergasted about is that we as a community have spent the last 10 years trying to get everyone to serve valid semantic markup, only to throw it all away. This tastes just as vile as using tables everywhere.
Using a DOM manipulation engine does not disqualify the developer from producing perfectly semantic markup.
The reality is that the modern web depends on JS, and the argument of deprecation won't change that anytime soon. We're moving forward, not backward.
On a technical note, there is quite some effort in rendering React/Angular apps on the server in case it's serving an outdated browser.
Edit: just realized that of course storing JS files isn't the solution to archive.org's challenge, it's storing server responses.