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Re:Ask HN: Will front end development ever move away from Ja... by StavrosK on Sunday March 12, 2017 @02:27PM (#13852179)
I see this misconception a lot in this thread. "Yes, people say the language has problems, but there are people can work around the problems, so they aren't really problems!"

The very fact that you need to learn to work with X means that it's a problem. Otherwise, all languages are just fine.

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Re:Ask HN: Will front end development ever move away from Ja... by z3t4 on Sunday March 12, 2017 @03:08PM (#13852418)
everything is stupid if you dont understand it. JS is pretty good at not getting in your way.
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Re:Ask HN: Will front end development ever move away from Ja... by StavrosK on Sunday March 12, 2017 @04:35PM (#13852942)
There is no "stupid" and "clever". There's only "consistent" and "inconsistent". JS isn't very consistent.
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Re:Ask HN: Will front end development ever move away from Ja... by coldtea on Sunday March 12, 2017 @03:45PM (#13852640)
>everything is stupid if you dont understand it.

Some things are stupid even after you understand them, and JS has plenty of those, as its creator and its greater evangelizer both admitted.

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