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Ask HN: Why is JavaScript still mocked and made fun of?
- giffarage 6y agoImo it's mostly due to the sheer number of people using it. More users --> more complaints.
- the_hoser 6y ago“There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.” -Bjarne Strostrup
- thesuperbigfrog 6y agoThe initial implementation of JavaScript was rushed and ended up with strange, seemingly broken behavior in some places. The WAT talk (https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat) by Gary Bernhardt shows some of the JavaScript strangeness.
- ChefboyOG 6y agoThis used to be more of a thing than it is now, in my experience. Culturally, it took a while for the perception of Javascript to change from "that janky language you had to use to animate web pages" to a general purpose language on the level of Python or Ruby. Node/React/Vue/etc. have been around long enough now that I think most of that has died out, though obviously, many still have a personal distaste for the language.
- sibeliuss 6y agoWith typescript growing more popular fewer have the same complaints -- things are changing