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Interesting how little love there is for JS here. Is this a trend or a case of a vocal (large) minority vs a quiet majority? It's a genuine question because mos
by scandox 10y ago
Interesting how little love there is for JS here. Is this a trend or a case of a vocal (large) minority vs a quiet majority? It's a genuine question because most of my choices are based on the level of support and popularity a language/ecosystem is likely to have over the next 5 years.
Given that basis and given that JS is in the browser, it always seemed to me that there couldn't be a safer choice.
- douche 10y agoJS is the lowest-common-denominator. Everybody at least kind of knows it, because you don't have any better option if you want to do anything in a browser (Even if you transpile, you end up having to know JS to figure out how to configure your transpilers and build process, and drop down to debug the emitted code). So there's a lot bigger pool of people that "understand" and can do JS than for possibly any other language these days. Maybe Java is bigger still, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's not. That doesn't mean it's good, or that you'd want to use it if you didn't have to and had other options.