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The only thing JavaScript was ever even barely good for was that which it was designed to do, be the programmable interface for a browser. Why anyone would want
by vinceguidry 7y ago
The only thing JavaScript was ever even barely good for was that which it was designed to do, be the programmable interface for a browser. Why anyone would want to do anything else with it simply boggles my mind.
It's like if someone took the BASIC my calculator offered back in the day and turned it into a general purpose programming language.
- heavenlyblue 7y agoBut JavaScript's got asynchronous!
- andrewprock 7y agoSo was Windows 95.
- robocat 7y agoA race to the "promised async hell". I wonder how many devs are struggling to debug and fix bad code written using Promise and async features. With care you can use these features safely and productively, but it is also very easy to make subtle mistakes that cause intermittent faults or strange corner case errors.
- heavenlyblue 7y agoThe comment is a reference to a phrase “It’s got electrolytes!”.