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There's no reason to insult people - programming languages, on the other hand, can not feel emotions. The opinion that JS is "not a proper language" is a little
by happytoexplain 3y ago
There's no reason to insult people - programming languages, on the other hand, can not feel emotions. The opinion that JS is "not a proper language" is a little glib, but thoroughly subjective, and taking either stance can be reasonably argued. It depends on the semantics of the word "proper", of course, but JS does obviously have glaring issues compared to some languages designed from the ground up in the 21st century (or even some languages at a comparable level of abstraction born in the 20th century).
- simonw 3y agoIn this case I think it's OK to insult people, because when they imply JavaScript isn't "a proper language" they're insulting several million other people already.
- wiseowise 3y agoA lot of “actshually”. JS is a proper language. Modern JS is beautiful - and I say that as someone who is Kotlin developer on a day to day job. Sure it has its warts, but you need to take into account its age and how widespread it is.