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JavaScript is like that. C++ was kinda like that. I think "Popularity among novices" is the only thing that determines whether a language will succeed or fail i

JavaScript is like that. C++ was kinda like that. I think "Popularity among novices" is the only thing that determines whether a language will succeed or fail in the long term (say, 20 years)

internetter 1y ago
> JavaScript is like that. JavaScript has gotten drastically better, especially since ES6. The lack of venvs alone is such a breath of fresh air. The baseline typing sucks more than python, but typescript is so much better. It still suffers from legacy but the world has mostly moved on and I don't see beginners learning legacy stuff much anymore. Modern javascript is amazing. I do my work in Elysia, Kysely (holy crap the python database situation is awful) and everything just works and catches tons of errors.