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Before I say anything, it’s probably worth noting that I write it for a living. Is it bad that while I was reading this I felt like you might be talking about J
by CSSer 7y ago
Before I say anything, it’s probably worth noting that I write it for a living. Is it bad that while I was reading this I felt like you might be talking about JS? Or are we talking much more broken?
- scottlocklin 7y agoJS is probably the most viable programming language there is. There was one "starts with letter J" language I was thinking of (along with a few others not starting with J); very fashionable and touted here which is egregiously unviable and broken though. It ain't J or Java.
- CSSer 7y agoOkay, good. I know it's popular to hate on JS, but I think it catches a lot of undue flack. I know it's not perfect, but I also know enough to have at least learned the reasons for most of its shortcomings. I mainly asked because it was my first language, so I often wonder if there really are greener fields out there and if yes, how much greener they actually are.
- scottlocklin 7y agoI was first exposed to it in detail prototyping a machine learning project for Brendan Eich, which is now a part of Brave's browser. JS has obvious defects, but it is amazingly handy and a very good design with good compromises. The tooling and community is excellent of course, though it is a real abuse of JS to try to write ML algorithms in it. But it could have been a language of data science instead of R, had it come in a different era.
- 7thaccount 7y agoJulia? I'm no expert, but it seems to be up and coming.
- dklend122 7y agoIt would be helpful for people looking to invest time in this language if you would just call it out. Or if you'd prefer, we can do it over some private messaging medium. I suspect I know which, but not sure. Also would like to know more about your critiques.