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> Javascript parsing technology will go down in history as ultimately the biggest waste of time that mankind ever indulged in, all because no one stood up and q
by flavio81 9y ago
> Javascript parsing technology will go down in history as ultimately the biggest waste of time that mankind ever indulged in, all because no one stood up and questioned if this language was even a good fit in the first place.
Javascript, in its current ES2016 version, is a pretty good and powerful language. ES2015 is also fine.
The problem is that most JS code out there has been done in the older versions of Javascript (pre-ES2015), which is really a terrible language (doesn't even have clean and clear variable scoping!).