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Okay, 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 lea
by CSSer 7y ago
Okay, 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.