JavaScript Conquered the Web, Now It’s Taking Over the Desktop

Re:JavaScript Conquered the Web, Now It’s Taking Over the De... by threatofrain on Monday September 12, 2016 @04:40PM (#12483449)

I don't understand why people say javascript is such an awful language. The "Wat" video previously posted features of a few javascript idiosyncrasies, but I think most people would consider such obscure syntax combinations to be ill mannered, and most people understand to be very careful around type conversions.

At a higher level of organization, the language begins to matter less and less, and what matters more are that subcomponents within a larger system obey their contracts, and that there's some concurrency strategy if you have distributed state.

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Re:JavaScript Conquered the Web, Now It’s Taking Over the De... by cygx on Monday September 12, 2016 @06:27PM (#12484189)

I don't understand why people say javascript is such an awful language.

Frankly, because from a language design perspective, it is - or at least used to be: Bad scoping rules (implicit global declarations by default, function instead of lexical block scope if var is present), weird implicit conversions, no good story for code reuse/object extension so everyone doing anything complex had to cook up their own version, ...

Nevertheless, I actually enjoy programming in Javascript ;)

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