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To the Comments here: Why on HN is always so much hate? Because you don't like Language X you have to say it in every post about it? 99% of the Comments are n
by lampe3 13y ago
To the Comments here:
Why on HN is always so much hate?
Because you don't like Language X you have to say it in every post about it?
99% of the Comments are not about the Topic just about beliefs of other Commenters....
- blueblob 13y ago</flamewar>
- CmonDev 13y agoI don't hate Java/Python/C#/C++ because I know I can realistically choose between them when building server, desktop and mobile software. I hate JavaScript because I am forced to use it for web clients. And transpilers are useless because I can't really use my high-level GUI (QT, GWT, WPF etc.) libraries. I spend enough time debugging raw JavaScript, I struggle to see how putting something on top of it will ease the pain.
- talles 13y agoThat's, IMO, is another discussion. This JavaScript you talking about are written by programmers that often don't know JavaScript well and uses it as a little glue language on the client. That's poorly written JavaScript. On top of that, what I see missing on all this flamew.., err, discussion, is the difference between a more loose, small and open language and a more consistent, closed and regular one. Both feel a lot different. Comparing it in a given scenario may be valid, comparing they without any context at all feels like apples and oranges.
- asdasf 13y agoIt actually is really important for people to point out how awful the current state of affairs is. If there isn't recognition of the problem, it will never be fixed. We need a standard browser bytecode, so multiple competing languages can exist and have the same access to the browser. As it stands now, people are using javascript as that bytecode, and writing decent language -> javascript compilers. Javascript is not well suited for this task.