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Out of all major programming languages, JavaScript is the language that changed the most in recent years.

• londons_explore 7y ago
  I tried to teach someone new to programming javascript... I was quite astonished at how hard it is to learn. Nearly anything you'd want to do, there are 5 different ways to achieve it, together with 5 more libraries/abstractions that help solve the issue, and they're all a bit incompatible. Have fun trying to integrate the "document.write('hello world')" example you found from stackoverflow into a react app while being a beginner and not really knowing why exactly they aren't compatible.
  • karatestomp 7y ago
    The inappropriately-leaked abstraction of the event loop is another big hurdle for newbies in JS-land. Yes we have async/await so it's somewhat less gross now but then that's another of those "5 ways to achieve it" things.