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It's interesting to see that a lot of people make fun of JS, publish articles on how weird it could be, receive a ton of likes, but still it's the most popular
by sAbakumoff 9y ago
It's interesting to see that a lot of people make fun of JS, publish articles on how weird it could be, receive a ton of likes, but still it's the most popular programming language at the moment. It's like Stockholm Syndrome we developed with time!
- Ygg2 9y ago> It's like Stockholm Syndrome we developed with time! It's easy to use and widely available. Give me example of another computer language that is installed on every computer with internet access. The base language isn't that bad, it's just that some bad initial decisions and backwards compatibility forced some really sharp paper cuts, most of you can avoid. Does this means that One True JS Programmer can write flawless JS Code? No, but in practice you don't have to write flawless JS Code.
- sAbakumoff 9y agoI agree that most of "very strange things" about JS can be avoided. 90% of these "look, js is weird" articles are quite useless as they make use of very artificial scenarios.
- Ygg2 9y agoYeah, but overall, I think it's useful since it highlights some cornerstones in JS.
- b0rsuk 9y agoThese are merely extreme cases. Javascript is full of less mind-boggling inconveniences. It's not like they only kept the really bad features for laughs and fixed the rest.
- sAbakumoff 9y agoAgree. "this" thing in JS can be really inconvenient for beginners.
- ben-schaaf 9y agoI can name one runtime for any number of languages which you can find installed on an absurd number of computers: JVM.
- goatlover 9y agoTiobe index has had the Java and the C languages in the top spot for over a decade.
- sAbakumoff 9y agoMy claims are based off of the stackoverflow survey : https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2017#technology https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2017#technology