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This (syntactic sugar) is the kind of thing that wouldn't even be considered in Go. And that's fine. I find it interesting that Go and Ruby can be placed at tw
by hu3 3y ago
This (syntactic sugar) is the kind of thing that wouldn't even be considered in Go. And that's fine.
I find it interesting that Go and Ruby can be placed at two different ends in so many spectrums and yet both still managed to be popular.
Goes to show that trying to build THE ONE TRUE LANGUAGE THAT WILL UNITE ALL DEVS is a fool's errand.
- Gh0stRAT 3y agoI think that Javascript's massive success with the terrible syntax it used to have goes a long way toward confirming your hypothesis.
- loloquwowndueo 3y ago“Used to have” :)
- Gh0stRAT 3y agoHaha yeah, I was being charitable to avoid starting a flamewar ;)
- vkou 3y agoDo people do real work in JS in 2023, or do they do it in languages that compile down to JS?
- dtech 3y agoIgnoring compiling and polyfilling for older JS versions, Typescript is extremely popular. While it's compiled, all things beside the type system are from Javascript by design including syntax.
- epcoa 3y agoProbably of all people a lot of ruby acolytes do since a sizable portion of that community is a DHH personality cult. And plain JS is the 2nd best language ever made in that realm.
- pphysch 3y agoJavaScript's massive success has nothing to do with the language and everything to do with the fact that its embedded in every web browser. There were no alternatives.
- still_grokking 3y agoThat's like saying "Objective C was a broadly successful language"…
- endorphine 3y agoEven more interesting to me is the fact that there are people whose most favorite languages are Ruby and Go. (I'm one of those people.)
- nunez 3y agoSame. Ruby is easy to read. Golang is super efficient and much safer.
- appleskeptic 3y agoRuby and C here.
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