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JavaScript is widely subset, and yet it remains inexplicably held in high esteem. Could it be more that C++ is a decent language that is fashionable to hate on

• loup-vaillant 11y ago
  JavaScript held in high esteem? You can't be serious? That language is way too flawed: equality operator that's not transitive, wicked scoping rules, semicolon that you can omit but really shouldn't… And you're telling me this poor Self copycat is held in high esteem? How? Because it took over the web? That's not enough. As for C++… That language is just too big for its own good. It tries to be too many things to too many people, and as a result is almost never the best choice. (Discounting code already written and available expertise of course. I'm judging the language, not the ecosystem.) The idea of C++ is a good one, under a couple conditions: first, it must be tuned to a domain or a way of programming. Second, it must not try to be goddamn source compatible with C. If we're writing a language, we might as well correct C's mistakes along the way.