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> justifiably given its 10 day gestation God, I hate this meme.

• dcminter 5y ago
  Why? It seems to be reasonably well cited; is it wrong?
  • schwartzworld 5y ago
    It's not wrong, but it's also misleading and cited as part of the larger "hurrdurr JavaScript bad" meme. It was originally intended as a simple scripting language to add interactivity to browsers, so the initial implementation was quick and dirty, but the language has evolved a lot since then. The "10 day gestation" has nothing to do with the quality of the language. He calls the language "quirky at best". Lots of people find it expressive and powerful, and those quirks are easy to ignore. For example, == is terrible, but we have === now. In 5 years of professional JS development, I've never seen anybody use the former.
    • dcminter 5y ago
      (I'm the OP) I guess some of my dislike of Javascript leaked in. But for the most part this is about the early days of the language when its quirks were more glaring as the mitigations and improvements hadn't been discovered/created. My personal feelings about it are more a general distaste for dynamically typed stuff. I rarely had to tangle with it professionally and cheerfully admit my ignorance of best practices!