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It's very easy to ignore the cruft with JS, and opening up the console and typing some code and having a graphical playground makes it ideal to try things. Pyt
by egeozcan 4y ago
It's very easy to ignore the cruft with JS, and opening up the console and typing some code and having a graphical playground makes it ideal to try things.
Python and Ruby are not in the same category IMHO, and while they are extremely good at what they are designed to do, I doubt that they could reach the lingua franca status js has. I would evaluate JS with PHP, Bash and C together, and I know how weird that sounds.
- 411111111111111 4y agoThere is tooling for most script languages which enables the same and often much better experimentation playgrounds. JS having it in in the browser, which is basically guaranteed to be on all devices and doesn't have to be setup before use is it's true advantage
- Paddy3118 4y agoLingua franca "language used as a means of communication between populations speaking vernaculars that are not mutually intelligible." Javascript is too Web focused. Python and C are better candidates as they are more than Web.
- egeozcan 4y agoNearly everybody can read JS, significantly less people can read Python or Ruby, it's not even the same ballpark.