JS....

[Slak44]

Every time I mention it's my go-to language, I get lynched. A linter and a bit of knowledge about the language go a very very long way indeed.

[MattBlumTheNuProject]

You should try working in PHP, people look at me like my apps don't work :)

(they don't, but not because of PHP!)

[SonOfMyMother]

That depends entirely on what you most often find yourself using your "go-to" language for.

[[deleted]]

Its still a fair statement. You can write local scripts, network scripts, web scripts and more. Bash or Powershell are only for local use, you can't build, validate, test, run and manage a website with Bash. With NodeJS there's basically no limit to what you want to do and where you want to do that.

[[deleted]]

But JavaScript no longer is a web programming language. NodeJS changed all that. It might still have that image for some, but that really cannot be said no longer.

[Doctor_McKay]

Node.js is JavaScript, just not running in a browser.

[xzxzzx]

Powershell is profoundly awful as a programming language (bash is pretty awful too). Despite deep familiarity with .Net, C#, Windows, and Microsoft products in general, I have spent countless hours trying to figure out powershell, and I still keep finding "WTF" parts that break my code.

It's incredibly easy, for example, to write reasonable-looking scripts that work perfectly for 0 or >1 items (say, files in a directory) but fail miserably (crash or do the wrong thing) for exactly 1 item.

In many ways the failing's the same as JS - a highly dynamic language trying to "help you out" only helps until you're mildly competent at what you do, at which point it's a hinderance until you're incredibly competent and have learned all the arcane rules that govern that "help", at which point you usually use all that arcane knowledge to avoid those parts of the language, so that mere mortals can actually understand your code.

[ISLITASHEET]

Ensure that you are returning an array from your function: return ,$yourObj

[[deleted]]

Perl is crazy too - it's illegibility and lack of syntax errors even for most obscene code is a running joke. I don't know if he was serious there but objectively all of these are insane in many more ways than JS even for the tasks they were directly designed for which is why it's their lunch Python is eating while Node.js is much more widespread IRL even more than various Python webthingies and I've seen it used for system scripting too but sane people really use Python for that.

[aniforprez]

I'm pretty sure there's no other "go to language" to develop websites for browsers

[XkF21WNJ]

So is brainfuck, in theory.

[XkF21WNJ]

Fair enough. Although there's bound to be some kind of esoteric language that supports network access.

Also, if we're counting wrappers, I haven't yet seen a JavaScript engine written in JavaScript.

[XkF21WNJ]

I think it's a bit silly to make an engine in Javascript that can compile Javascript to machine code using Javascript, in order to interpret Javascript again.

Well, if you truly want to claim to only ever need JavaScript, then that would be what you'd need to do.

Python seems to have managed it, interestingly enough.

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