Not all quirks are created equally, friend, and not all languages of a particular "generation" (e.g. python, javascript, java all released in the early- to mid-

Not all quirks are created equally, friend, and not all languages of a particular "generation" (e.g. python, javascript, java all released in the early- to mid-90s) are essentially equivalent. PG put it well: > But when our hypothetical Blub programmer looks in the other direction, up the power continuum, he doesn't realize he's looking up. What he sees are merely weird languages. He probably considers them about equivalent in power to Blub, but with all this other hairy stuff thrown in as well.[1] Anyway, we probably agree on this topic but are dickering over something tangential (whether JavaScript sucks). I'm a big React+Flux fan as well. I never enjoyed front-end development, and really I avoided it, until React came around. [1] http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html