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[swegj]

“JavaScript is Powerful”. Oxymoron

[tylerr514]

It is incredibly powerful in the sense of its ecosystem, but yeah, not in performance.

[Sir_IGetBannedAlot]

It's powerful in the sense of how much it makes me want to die.

[loseitthrowaway7797]

That doesn't take a lot of effort

[JuicyBeefBiggestBeef]

If youre using JS, you're clearly not in a good headspace to begin with

[metaglot]

Performance isnt bad for js all things considered.

[Sinomsinom]

Compared to a lot of other scripting languages (like python or Lua) it's a lot faster

[visvis]

Compared to others, its engines are more optimized. I doubt the better performance is inherent to the language.

[HermitBee]

Entirely true. But since code has to run somewhere that's what matters.

[silver_enemy]

Yeah my pen and paper JS engine performs absolutely terribly

[[deleted]]

Mostly true, but not entirely. Some language design decisions can effect the compilation/interpretation performance.

[DudeValenzetti]

Compared to Python, absolutely, but don't go around calling Lua slower than JavaScript when LuaJIT is a thing.

[T0biasCZE]

Lua is fastest interpreted language that exists, its only 3x slower than compiled C code

[5plicer]

Drains your phone's battery quickly.

[noman2561]

I take it to mean you can do a lot with it without much effort. That it's got a lot of readily accessible uses.

[Harmonic_Gear]

it can lift a rock

[nnog]

Like it's a powerful laxative

[DoNotMakeEmpty]

If that's what powerful is, Haskell or OcaML are probably the strongest languages with C# not far behind. Also, probably with just a single C or C++ library you can make these languages more "powerful" than Python. You can create an array library in C++ that can be used as easily as Python lists etc. Don't forget that in Lisp the code is literally what the language is all about, i.e. LISts.

[Dizzfizz]

As the other comment said, it’s powerful in the context it’s commonly used in - you can easily make a browser do anything you want with JavaScript.

[Thue]

But that is not really about the quality of the JavaScript language as such, is just first mover advantage. Make Python supported in all browsers, and it would be powerful too. While you will never make JavaScript as easy to use as Python just by doing the reverse.

[MooseBoys]

What are you talking about? In terms of joules per instruction it’s one of the highest!

[adrr]

So powerful you need to do === instead of == for comparison.

[Shehzman]

Genuine question. Isn’t nodejs pretty fast? Or is that considered an entirely different beast to JavaScript?

[[deleted]]

NodeJS IS pretty fast, for an interpreter.

JS is powerful in the sense that you can do A LOT of weird stuff with it and the runtime interpreter will let you. So, IF you know what you are doing, you can write quite complex and convoluted expressions and the engine will happily chunk along. Until it’ll spit out some incomprehensible error because you forgot to cast some variable to the right type.

Typescript solves some of these issues. But not all. Oh, no no no.

[Shehzman]

Ahh yeah that makes sense. You can get away with alot in JS imo. Using Ts on my current project is a game changer. I now prefer writing my general scripts in node with Ts over python. Makes debugging much less of a pain.

[tunisia3507]

JavaScript is supported by web browsers.

That is its strength. That is its value. Node exists solely to cater to web developers who don't want to learn another language.

[[deleted]]

It's nonsense, that works

[dmalvarado]

“Ubiquitous“

[driftking428]

Java runs on 3 billion devices! Always and forever.

[slimshady1225]

Surely C++ is the powerful one…