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Come, JavaScript isn't that bad: it's probably one of the most pleasant of the popular languages; it's just unpolished and has some stupid bits.
by tikhonj 15y ago
Come, JavaScript isn't that bad: it's probably one of the most pleasant of the popular languages; it's just unpolished and has some stupid bits.
- DiabloD3 15y agoI suspect you just described almost every language ever.
- astine 15y agoLet's take the empirical approach: "Come, BrainFk isn't that bad: it's probably one of the most pleasant of the popular languages; it's just unpolished and has some stupid bits." Nope, guess not.
- DiabloD3 15y agoLet me rephrase, "almost every language that is close to or has met its peak popularity"
- tikhonj 15y agoLet me rephrase it then: fundamentally, JavaScript is sound. It's like a nice city with a couple of bad neighborhoods you can usually avoid. Other languages have much more pervasive bad features, and yet others are fundamentally unsound. JavaScript is fine.
- jronkone 15y agoSaying that "Javascript is fundamentally sound" is like saying "McDonalds serves fundamentally nutritious food". It's technically true, but ignores completely what people actually mean when they use the phrases like "fundamentally sound".
- tree_of_item 15y agoIsn't that bad compared to...the language it was supposedly implemented in? Yes, yes it is that bad.
- tikhonj 15y agoI'm not saying JavaScript isn't worse than Lisp: I just think that describing it as "enslaving generations of programmers" is a bit much.