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JS is better thought out than either Perl or Python. (Since we're just stating opinions without arguments here).

• tbrownaw 13y ago
  IIRC, JS was designed and initially implemented by a single programmer in about 10 days. It's far better than could reasonably be expected given that, but it still sucks. Some of the things that immediately come to mind WRT not being well thought out are bad number handling, lack of modules, and possibly the number of warnings needed about how "this" behaves.
  • collyw 13y ago
    Having to emulate block scope with functions is number one for me. Its not like you can avoid that sort of programming in anything non-trivial.
  • nawitus 13y ago
    Yes, the the first version of JavaScript was pretty bad. It's been improved since.
• collyw 13y ago
  Ok, if you really need some arguments have a look here. You will see that JavaScript has 3 or 4 times the amount of complainants that Python does. https://wiki.theory.org/YourLanguageSucks https://wiki.theory.org/YourLanguageSucks On top of that Python has a solid set of libraries for it. In my experience with JavaScript (admittedly a lot more limited than with Python or Perl), the library support is far poorer. Angular is one of the most popular frameworks out there and the documentation is terrible. Compare that to any major framework in Python or Perl and you will see the difference.