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Re:My Biggest Regret as a Programmer by gear54rus on Wednesday April 06, 2016 @06:44AM (#11437884)
No amount of cute phrases will change the fact that it is being spread by people who actually understand its flexibility instead of focusing on something that rubs them the wrong way (which, most of the time is the result of working with other, often shiver enterprisey language(s) and thinking that that's how it's done) quite effectively and there's no sign of stopping for its growth.

And that is good.

With things like rust and go backing us up in places where more verbose and static code is beneficial (for performance?) we are finally entering new age which leaves closed corp-controlled "enterprise" things (java, net - looking at you) behind.

Re:My Biggest Regret as a Programmer by StavrosK on Wednesday April 06, 2016 @09:43AM (#11438695)
My litmus test for whether an argument for JS is valid is replacing "JS" with "PHP" in my head and seeing if it reads the same. PHP did all the same things, but that doesn't make it a good language, it just makes it a language that's easy enough to learn for it to get popular.
Re:My Biggest Regret as a Programmer by bottled_poe on Wednesday April 06, 2016 @10:32PM (#11444256)
JS is popular for one reason - browser support.
Re:My Biggest Regret as a Programmer by ribs on Wednesday April 06, 2016 @11:43PM (#11444545)
Indeed. It's the best (shittiest) way to deploy code on as many people's desktops as possible.
Re:My Biggest Regret as a Programmer by aplummer on Thursday April 07, 2016 @09:34AM (#11447088)
Ecactly the environment JavaScript exists in (the open web) is so accessible and awesome, which is why it's popular, and that awesomeness rubs off IMO
Re:My Biggest Regret as a Programmer by gear54rus on Wednesday April 06, 2016 @10:42PM (#11444301)
There is another - unique async nature from the start. That's why it made its way into node.

It is not popular the same way PHP is popular in any capacity. It really is a unique useful efficient language.

Re:My Biggest Regret as a Programmer by esailija on Thursday April 07, 2016 @02:52AM (#11445242)
So what's your excuse for the popularity of Java, C++ etc?
Re:My Biggest Regret as a Programmer by bottled_poe on Thursday April 07, 2016 @03:21AM (#11445366)
I think the main reason for the popularity of object-oriented languages is that the design corresponds more closely to the physical world, which makes it easier to reason about the architecture of the software.
Re:My Biggest Regret as a Programmer by elmin on Wednesday April 06, 2016 @10:41AM (#11439042)
In my experience Go is a better choice than Node for reliability and stability reasons, rather than performance most of the time.