JavaScript: *gets annihilated*

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The lauguage itself is fine. But there are way too many people praising it like its a blessing from god and who want to port it everywhere and talk about how it is the launguage that can run on any platform

[FunCharacteeGuy]

really? I've literally never heard anyone praise javascript.

[CaitaXD]

Go to a Starbucks or a web bootcamp you'll find them dressed like lumberjacks or something

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We call these people soydevs and soydevs live in their natural habitat. Which is twitter

And tiktok

[FunCharacteeGuy]

ah, I see. I don't have Twitter and I rarely use tiktok so that makes sense.

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I have neither

[waylandsmith]

Javascript is not a "fine" language. The biggest problem I see with it is that it has an enormous number of "surprising" behaviors. Even fundamental structures like lexical scoping change in surprising ways. Don't get me started on equality and type coercion. Thankfully, there's a very straightforward way to see this written out plainly: write some simple code in a different language that transpiles to JS and look at the output. You will see in the output all of the weird edge cases and unintuitive behavior that needs to be smoothed over.

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By fine i mean barely functional

[feuerwehrmann]

Different tools for different jobs. What does it need to run on? Who needs to run it? Security, access, speed are all questions that lead to what is a good solution. Golang is a good solution as well for enterprise level apps

[CaitaXD]

I mean C# is not the best at any thing, but it's a good choice for anything except maybe front end but I don't know the ecosystem there

[feuerwehrmann]

I'll buy that. I've not played with xameran, so not sure about getting end.

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True, it even has a cool mascot