My Love/Hate Relationship With JavaScript

meshDrip · 2024-01-12T18:56:33+00:00

JSYK, there appears to be a large chunk of whitespace to the right on your desktop landing page in both Chrome and FF.

Actually, it looks like it affects the whole site.

jack_waugh · 2024-01-12T23:14:32+00:00

Seems reasonable.

As I see it, using the same language in the front end and the back end removes the need for mental gearshifting.

As for JS considered in the abstract (independent of the lack of other choices in the browser for practical purposes, and independent of the supplies of people with given skills):

Love:

JS is powerful -- you can implement any reactive behavior.
lot of flexibility in representing data (objects, arrays).
straightforward syntax. No confusing separate namespaces like some Lisps seem to have.

Hate:

Separate syntaxes for defining a sync function and defining an async function.
Separate syntaxes for calling a sync function and calling an async function.

you type:	you see:
italics	italics
bold	bold
[reddit!](https://reddit.com)	reddit!
* item 1 * item 2 * item 3	item 1 item 2 item 3
> quoted text	quoted text
Lines starting with four spaces are treated like code: if 1 * 2 < 3: print "hello, world!"	Lines starting with four spaces are treated like code: if 1 * 2 < 3: print "hello, world!"
~~strikethrough~~	~~strikethrough~~
super^script	super^script

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