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Ignoring tooling or pre-existing libraries (mainly because Deno is at an early stage of trying to boot a new JS/TS ecosystem), what makes Javascript that differ
by AgentME 5y ago
Ignoring tooling or pre-existing libraries (mainly because Deno is at an early stage of trying to boot a new JS/TS ecosystem), what makes Javascript that different as a language from, say Python or Ruby?
Besides minor syntax differences, the main differences to me seem to be that JS has a greater commitment to asynchronousness / async-await and has a better static typing solution through Typescript, which seem like solid wins for JS/TS.
- worik 5y agoI know nothing of Ruby, except it exists. Python is as bad a choice as Javascript for application development. It is possible to develop large ad complex applications in any language, and people do. But modern languages provide the support a programmer needs to write reliable application software. Python is suitable for scripting. Application development is not scripting. There are so many better choices, just so many. Why choose such a poor tool for application development as a language designed fro scripting?