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I thought when I moved from Springboot + JavaScript to NodeJS I would enjoy the lack of context switching. What I didn’t know about myself is that I hate JavaS
by hinkley 2y ago
I thought when I moved from Springboot + JavaScript to NodeJS I would enjoy the lack of context switching.
What I didn’t know about myself is that I hate JavaScript a little bit more than I hate Java and for different reasons. So I was volunteering for stories in one when I was feeling frustrated with the other. Now it’s just more JavaScript unless I work on CLI, CI/CD pipelines, or telemetry bugs, which are still almost half JavaScript. I cannot get away from it enough and every time I do that takes someone else’s opportunity to do the same.
I worry that all Gleam all the time would arrive at the same conclusion.
- skydhash 2y agoIMO, JavaScript is fine for scripting. Same with Python, Lua, and others. Great for glue code or a small feature, when the bulk of the system is written is in a saner language with proper libraries.
- hinkley 2y agoAny time you drag a language out of its sweet spot is gonna be a bad time. Javascript is out of its sweet spot quite a bit, which is how we end up with typescript. However statically strongly typed code is out of its sweet spot where prototyping and to an extent refactoring are concerned. And mercifully we now have progressively typed languages trying to fill that space.