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It really, really super isn’t. It’s a Frankenstein mashup of programming insanity that never should have come into being in the first place, much less become th
by king_magic 8y ago
It really, really super isn’t. It’s a Frankenstein mashup of programming insanity that never should have come into being in the first place, much less become the de facto language of the web.
- colordrops 8y agoAny particular reasons or is this just based on what you heard 10 years ago?
- aaaaaaaaaab 8y agoFrom the top of my head: - `this` - the whole prototypal inheritance thing - class inheritance bolted on top of prototypal inheritance - arrow functions vs `function` functions
- cwackerfuss 8y agoBut none of that is going to affect our ability to do machine learning work with JavaScript
- kkarakk 8y agodoesn't it affect complexity on an exponential scale though? codebases aren't paragons of perfection when even 2 devs are working on them
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- ilrwbwrkhv 8y agoit actually isnt a mashup... if u look at the data types... they are some of the simplest... the apis might be a bit weird... i agree
- kukabynd 8y agoSo, what language is not an insanity?