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