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I'm not using popularity as the metric. "1 million identical websites were built with JavaScript" wouldn't say much beyond the first website. But that there is
by blowski 5y ago
I'm not using popularity as the metric. "1 million identical websites were built with JavaScript" wouldn't say much beyond the first website.
But that there is a very broad range of successful applications partly relying on JavaScript for their success undercuts the idea that JavaScript is inherently rubbish. Whether it has some subjective "quality" is a conversation best left for art galleries.
- anoncake 5y agoIf you say JS is "pretty good" how is that not a statement about its quality?
- blowski 5y agoFair point. I guess I could rephrase it as "JavaScript provides a lot of value".
- joelfolksy 5y ago"The proof that JS is actually pretty good is that it has been used to build so many things." [French Narrator] 5 minutes later... "I'm not using popularity as the metric."