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No upsides compared to what? Faster development time compared to Java, C-family languages is an upside. Faster VM (V8) than Ruby MRI, and just about every other
by krisdol 10y ago
No upsides compared to what? Faster development time compared to Java, C-family languages is an upside. Faster VM (V8) than Ruby MRI, and just about every other dynamic scripting language, is also an upside. It's also an incredibly easy language to learn and write. Many of the weird inherent flaws went away with strict mode and ES5, ES2015 has helped make it much more elegant to read. Of course, you can always switch to a superior language like Elm that benefits from the same VM.
- vesak 10y agoOh, I did not mean to say that Javascript has no upsides whatsoever. It clearly does. I meant to say that it has problems which have no upsides. By which I mean that it has certain weaknesses that contribute nothing to its good features and that could have been designed correctly without negatively impacting anything. They are just plain mistakes.