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Why do people hate Javascript and Ruby and PHP?
by MonaroVXR 5y ago
Why do people hate Javascript and Ruby and PHP?
- softfalcon 5y agoI don’t. JavaScript has been very useful for me building Node and Electron apps. Ruby has been useful for me for building large dynamic CMS apps. PHP largely got me into web development and is still used in Wordpress which I still maintain plugins for. Laravel seems cool too. Everything has its merits and its environment where it shines. They’re also all imperfect, but that’s okay.
- nonima 5y agoThey are popular programming languages.
- tonyedgecombe 5y agoJavaScript is only popular because it was forced on us by being the only option in the browser. Without that it would be as significant as VBScript is now.
- chrisco255 5y agoThey are interpreted and dynamically typed. Some programmers loathe dynamic types. JS and PHP also have quite a bit of quirky legacy code for which there are modern tools or conventions to bypass the quirks entirely (ie ES2015, prettier). However, a great number of programmers have PTSD from those early days and are weary to give them a second look.
- hkt 5y agoI can't speak for JavaScript or PHP, but I hated ruby's package management. Gem dependency hell was a blight that made jumping to Golang inevitable for me personally.
- MrPatan 5y agoBecause they are successful. Nobody hates Perl anymore