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>This is just not true. You can always find someone not liking a language but if you asked people that have used many different languages they can of course ran
by zxcvcxz 12y ago
>This is just not true. You can always find someone not liking a language but if you asked people that have used many different languages they can of course rank them from worst to best. And although I am not ad hoc aware of any study demonstrating this I also never met any developer seriously suggesting that JavaScript would rank on top of that list.
So because it's not number one it's an "awful language"? That doesn't make any sense and I know plenty of people who enjoy working with javascript. In fact the few people I do know who hate JS are people who haven't done more than copy/paste code from stackoverflow.
- Rygu 12y agoIf few people hate programming in Javascript then explain this to me: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/wiki/list-of-languages-that-compile-to-js https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/wiki/list-of-langu...
- shwetank 12y agoFirstly, just because someone makes a compile-to-js language doesn't mean they ncesserily "hate" JS ... I mean, it may, but it could also very well mean that they prefer their own language instead of JS, but not hate JS per say. Also, compare this to the number of people who are just using JS normally worldwide, then we'll have perspective of just how many more people are just fine with JS Vs the people who feel the need to make these. My guess would be that the number of people who like JS and use just normal JS in their projects is far far greater in number than the people who use compile-to-js solutions. So in comparision to the former, the latter group could be called as 'few'.
- danbruc 12y agoYou can not count people only knowing JavaScript because most of them are probably not even aware how bad JavaScript is because they never used anything else.