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If you post uninformed blogs with trollish titles, is that also due to ignorance? I was well versed in the concepts of functional languages long before I was e
by georgemcbay 13y ago
If you post uninformed blogs with trollish titles, is that also due to ignorance?
I was well versed in the concepts of functional languages long before I was ever exposed to JavaScript, and while I prefer more pragmatic languages that allow functional concepts (like Go) as opposed to pure functional languages, I make use of functional concepts all the time.
Guess what? JavaScript still sucks. The scoping is still ridiculous (yeah, I know, the fix for that is just around the corner, just like it has been since ECMAScript 4 got shelved how many years ago)? The lack of true parallelism results in hacky solutions like webworkers, callback hell, etc, etc.
FWIW, JavaScript is hardly the only language I "hate", but my hate for it burns so much stronger based on the fact that the political efforts of the Mozilla group have essentially destroyed any chance of a true competitor that didn't have to live with JavaScript's warts underneath it being used as widely-deployed web client language. So I'm sometimes forced to use it despite how much I hate it, unlike most languages where I can easily use alternatives that I don't hate.
My hate for JavaScript is very pragmatic!