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Nothing here disproves the claim you try to disprove. "There are smart people" - that's a given, but how does that disprove that the barrier is low, and the vas
by LeoNatan25 10y ago
Nothing here disproves the claim you try to disprove. "There are smart people" - that's a given, but how does that disprove that the barrier is low, and the vast majority of less-to-none experienced developers choose JS these days?
- agentultra 10y agoI was tackling the blanket assertion that Javascript developers are novice programmers. It's understood that there are programmers of all skill levels who use Javascript. However statements like the aforementioned are dangerous when people just assume it must be true. There are novice programmers and many of them choose Javascript is more accurate. The aforementioned assertion is used as a pejorative by programmers from other languages who think, perhaps rightfully so, that Javascript is inferior to their language of choice. That doesn't make Javascript programmers as a whole inferior despite what such a blanket statement implies.
- fsloth 10y agoI think in general since the number of programmers grows, the majority must be novices, and the language growing most rapidly has relatively the largest amount of novices. I know it sounds like snobistry and not a statistical blanket statement, though.
- LeoNatan25 10y ago"There are novice programmers and many of them choose Javascript is more accurate." - this is how I read the GP's comment.