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Is Javascript the worst language ever designed? No, not by a long shot. It's a little hyperbole for humor. I think the majority of the article went over peop
by dham 11y ago
Is Javascript the worst language ever designed? No, not by a long shot. It's a little hyperbole for humor. I think the majority of the article went over peoples heads. Maybe because developers are more analytical in nature, or the fact that it's text and is interpreted differently by each person.
The goal was to make a few points, but more to get people thinking. Web developers are taken too much by trends without understanding them.
I wrote the original article.
- paulddraper 11y agoYeah, it's line he's never heard of PHP. JS is probably 2nd, among languages still in common use.
- nikdaheratik 11y agoIt's a good point, but any usable language can work out okay as long as the people coding it know what they're doing and how to write code that other people can work with. The thing that irritates me about the node.js trend is that the people who are using it don't always understand the environment they are in because they never write for the server side. It's a case of an entire community needing to RTFM. OTOH, it's not like anyone outside the community is forced to use their code. And some of them at least know what they are doing.