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I think that Javascript's massive success with the terrible syntax it used to have goes a long way toward confirming your hypothesis.
by Gh0stRAT 3y ago
I 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"…