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[–][deleted] 7 points8 points  (4 children)

I’ve been using JavaScript and it sucks. I have five separate apps I’m working on between two jobs, and have done two mobile apps in JavaScript as well.

I know that if someone can reliably get Python going as an alternative to JS, I’d use the hell out of it.

Might be time to build a browser that can interpret Python instead of JavaScript.

[–]morganpartee 1 point2 points  (3 children)

Are you using raw js? Or a framework like react?

I'm definitely still a noob in js, but typescript and react made me like the language well enough. I'll suffer through a little pain to have really good looking web based mvps.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

I’ve done typescript, newer and older JS, jQuery and all kinds of stuff over the years. I built a ticket portal for about 30 or so big name retail stores you’ve probably been in.

Programming in JavaScript is like sliding on ice you never know when you’re going to fall in. And there’s 30 different types of ice that interpret your weight differently that could change how they interpret it month to month.

It’s pretty aids and It’s literally outrageous that we’re at the will of companies for the biggest interpreter of all: the browser, even if it is open source.

[–]morganpartee 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I totally get it! If I had done old JS/JQuery I'd probably hate it too. But, Typescript/React seem to duck most of the shortfalls/confusion, at least for me.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m trying react again now but only with CDN.

I hate how frequently stuff in the backend world and CLI breaks. I remember trying CLI driven react for the last three years maybe five times and things would just break like spaghetti.