If you don’t hate a programming language you simply haven’t used it enough or are delusional. Every language sucks in its own special way, js ain’t special.
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oxideseven@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Doing Odin Project now and the constant shiting on JS online is sort of crushing my motivation. 😫
garyyo@lemmy.world 10 months ago
z3n0x@feddit.de 10 months ago
cue “if those kids could read they’d be very upset”
Reliant1087@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I agree with you that every language has its flaws but JS feels like it was a hodgepodge created without any design philosophy in mind. I don’t use C or lisp in day to day work but I can appreciate their philosophies and power. Can’t say the same about JS.
fkn@lemmy.world 10 months ago
That’s because it literally is the result of mozila, Microsoft and later Google fighting about what the right language choices were/are. Browser detection scripts and shims are still a thing, but back in the day we had to code that shit by hand every, and I mean every, minor version release of every browser.
ursakhiin@beehaw.org 10 months ago
JS is fine. But as with any tool it’s not the best for every scenario.
The flak JS tends to get us mostly because of the rise of popularity is Node.js leading to backend JavaScript beginning commonplace. which it’s overall a poor choice for backend when compared to many other languages as the strengths that JS has are more tailored to frontend.
HKayn@dormi.zone 10 months ago
Don’t let it get to you. This is mostly just a circlejerk by people who don’t even use JS themselves.
elbarto777@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Don’t listen to the javascript haters.
glad_cat@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months ago
Honest answer: JS is a shitty language and I despise it. BUT you can learn a ton of stuff with that, all the features (loops, conditions, variables, etc.) that exist in other languages. You will hate JS one day too, but right now it’s good to learn, and when you’ll switch to other languages, you’ll be happy you learned something.
So yes, JS sucks, but no, it won’t be useless for your future. Keep on working, programming is really fun.
BrucePotality@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Don’t worry about, JS is a fine language and is used by all of the top companies. If you want to get a job as a software developer you have decent odds if you learn JS
FoxBJK@midwest.social 10 months ago
As someone currently job hunting - native JS isn’t enough anymore. Everyone wants React devs. I see some posts for Vue or Angilar and sometimes even TypeScript but the vast majority want React coders now.
towerful@programming.dev 10 months ago
Very true.
If you are learning JavaScript, typescript is absolutely worth learning as well.
React and Vue have some additional paradigms, but it is basically just JavaScript/typescript.
It’s a lot to learn all in one step.
I guess it’s like trying to learn C# and Unity all in one