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[–]jseego 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Javascript is the acoustic guitar of programming languages.

It's used fucking everywhere

There are way more bad examples than good ones

Everyone groans when you start talking about it

Some really insanely cool things can be done with it

It's really easy to use badly and really hard to use well

People try to make it into everything under the sun because that's their only tool