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Because I need 90,000 stupid packages on npm which can be disabled and removed at any moment. Vs python which mostly requires 20-100 if you are really making a

• overkalix 8y ago
  Not a webdev, but from what I've seen webdevs are forced to compete, not in what they can do, but in terms of how they can do it (frameworks, packages). So, an aspect of your work process becomes a proxy for the quality of your work. In a context of permanent competition, this forces an acritical and rapid adoption of frameworks that perhaps only marginally improve some aspects of some other frameworks. Then compound this with the inflow of bootcamp-trained webdevs with poor practices whose employability relies on having being recently trained on the latest hyped framework.
  • heavenlyblue 8y ago
    No, JavaScript just doesn't have a standard library. And even if you think it does - then look at what Py std has to offer.