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> [00:03:46.280] However, the language that we above all shouldn't support is JavaScript. That's not because of the language itself. I don't know the JavaScript
by lxe 4y ago
> [00:03:46.280] However, the language that we above all shouldn't support is JavaScript. That's not because of the language itself. I don't know the JavaScript language, I've heard people say it's rather clumsy and not well designed
- bawolff 4y agoThat seems like the opposite of him saying he hates javascript.
- sidlls 4y agoRight after: "But I don't know this." You left a critical piece of context out. His sources are not wrong, though: it is clumsy and not well designed.
- strken 4y agoEven people who like JS think it's clumsy and not well designed. I love the asynchronous-by-default nature of JS and I certainly don't hate the language as a whole, but it can be a weird mess. Consider type coercion, the way Date doesn't store timezones, the legacy implementation of parseInt() that tried to detect the radix, etc. From a lisp perspective it has many of the usual problems of C descendants, too.