Hacker News is arguing over whether JavaScript is a worthwhile programming language yet again.. 😏 news.ycombinator.com/item?id=163466…
People arguing about it isn’t going to slow the train down. Despite what they wish to be true, hacker news does not dictate adoption, and Github’s JS stats show we’re not even close to seeing the train pull into the station.
Let people argue and keep on building stuff. People complaining about how they wish things were have never brought any value in the world. People who make stuff do.
If people will argue about the Earth being flat.. you can guarantee they'll argue about whether JS is worthwhile. It never ends. 😐
Sounds like someone should leave the tech/programming industry if they cannot deal with languages progressing and expanding in usage 🤔
If you know bad parts of JS and are able to isolate them and use only good parts of it, it is a wonderful language.
Thus used to be my view 3 years ago when I was a java developer. Used to call it "Javashit" instead of "Javascript" 😂. Now I just love calling "Javascript"
Web development can be hard, but it's not because of the design of the #Javascript language (usually) - We're beyond the days (for any decent sized web app) where a non-expert can just pick up the #frontend development tasks
You may think other way - what is the most bug-proof language in the world? While C program just stops and hangs on error, JS errors may be programmed to be caught and then the program would go on. This would be very useful even for spaceship software.
People here react way too defensively. JS has good adoption, but so many things in and around the language are far from good nor perfect.
"Non ti curar di loro ma guarda e passa" (Dante Alighieri): "Do not care of them and go on!"
At the end of the day people have to realize languages are used for different things. I don't support native development with react-native but I mean for web development what else will you use?
It looks like they imagine that everyone needs to write full-featured rocket science tasks in a browser... :) And not just simple manipulations with the DOM and CSS...
With the old JS they probably could say that but ES6 rocks to me!
Good luck creating another language with as big an ecosystem, that runs on every device without installing "additional" software, assuming everybody has a browser installed. It's not hard to understand why it's so popular. Maybe it is not well designed, but it has great impact!
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