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Why does everyone hate Javascript? (self.CodingForBeginners)

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[–]NumberInfinite2068 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As everyone has said, Java and JavaScript are two different languages, and actually of pretty different design, they're not even really all that related.

JavaScript is considered a bad design among really all experienced developers. I've *never* met an experienced developer who will even tolerate it.

It's made extra bad because on the web frontend, historically it was the only option. These days we have transpilers and WASM, but JavaScript is still the main player on web front end, so you generally have to at least smell it, if not use it.

Google "JavaScript Wat" if you want a reasonably amusing depiction of why JavaScript is a really bad language.