Comment on Sometimes there is a better choice than Javascript

• ActionHank@sopuli.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  True, but its not that useful of a thought. Or it seems to be used in a thought-terminating way. As if we shouldn’t criticize languages. As if they aren’t tools that are able to be improved upon, or they’re all made equal.

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  • princess@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    oh i never considered that reading of the quote

    i read it as more: complaints about a language, particularly the amount of complaints, don’t mean it is a Bad Language that should be dropped in favor of something else

    in fact the complaints validate that the language is being used by people, and that is imo a decent proxy metric for the usefulness of the language

    so please complain about your languages’ shortcomings! i hate so many things about terraform / sh / python / golang / java and will gladly rant at length, and then go right back to using them

    except groovy

    fuck groovy

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