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Javascript is a general purpose programming language and your comment doesn't make any sense.

• jacquesm 9y ago
  Hard to decide if your comment is meant as a joke.
  • RandomInteger4 9y ago
    How would I be joking? Do you even program with JS or are you basing your opinions on hearsay and a bad introduction you had one time in the past and haven't looked at it since? Last I checked, Javascript is Turing Complete and has most of the common features you'd find in every other language. Just because it doesn't have OS interaction on the browser side doesn't mean it isn't a general purpose language. Have you ever even heard of Node.js? Have you not seen the wealth of great things implemented in Javascript? Where does your claim that Javascript is not a general purpose programming language come from is what I'm asking. I can't seem to grok how one could come to that conclusion, which is why your comment doesn't make sense. Don't get me wrong, Python is a great language as well, but outside of a slightly more preferable syntax, I don't see why you seem to think Javascript is such a bad language. Javascript (in Node.js 7.9.0) even seems to have better benchmarks performance than Python 3.6.1 [1] Please elaborate rather than making snide replies. [1] https://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/compare.php?lang=node&lang2=python3 https://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/compare.php?la...
• charles-salvia 9y ago
  ECMAScript is a general purpose programming language that, historically, just happened to be made specifically for the purpose of standardizing a language made specifically with a web-browser (Netscape) in mind.