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He said it's "one of the worst." And even people who write JavaScript admit that.

• Meegul 10y ago
  Perhaps it is. PHP is also typically ragged on for being "one of the worst", yet it runs the majority of the web. The common theme between JavaScript and PHP is that it's possible to write some pretty awful code, but that doesn't make it impossible to write _good_ code in either of them. Do we measure languages by the worst we can create with them, or the best we can create with them? It's also easy to be "one of the worst" when there are only a handful of languages that see widespread use. You only need to be in the bottom 5 of 15 or so languages, but my point is that that may not imply that it's a bad language.
  • galacticpony 10y ago
    It's not about good or bad code, Javascript doesn't really encourage either. It's a bad tool, but it's good enough for the job. It happened to be the only tool available, up until recently. It will take forever for another ecosystem to catch up.
  • loppers92 10y ago
    you need to learn at least 3 languages that you know exactly what means writing good or bad code with a language. After the time you don't want write code with a poor language. If you have learned a better language. A Software engineer uses always the best tool and not the worst.
    • oldsj 10y ago
      The best(only) tool available may be a bad one
      • loppers92 10y ago
        Dart is a alternative
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• mintplant 10y ago
  I've worked on a JavaScript engine and I'll admit that. The language actively fights optimization. Some of this is due to legacy features, some to inconvenient design decisions like mutable prototype chains. I have tremendous respect for everyone involved in getting JS performance to where it is today.