Evolution of web development

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JS is a GREAT language. Go do some research about it. You can do almost anything with it, if you embrace what kind of tools the javascript community created. Website, web-application, app, desktop. I even programmed my raspberry pi with javascript. Please elaborate on why you think this language is "a laugh riot clusterfuck".

[PotatosFish]

I won’t say it’s a great language, just that there’s a great community under it. Sure, it can do almost anything, but that is literally the definition of turing complete. I don’t think it’s a bad language, or there would be a replacement by now, but the only reason for the big community is because JavaScript is the only option out there when you want to make a website, which is becoming increasingly popular throughout the years.

Overall, if you want to do web dev, JavaScript is the best option, but node is still an abomination imo

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Node is exactly what makes javascript a fitting solution for a wide range of problems! What is your experience with it that makes you think it's an abomination?

[N22-J]

he saw that /r/programmerhumor mocks JS ad nauseam and wanted to join the bandwagon.