Re:JavaScript is Good, Actually
by hungerstrike on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @12:39PM
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JavaScript is more enjoyable than Python to me. You can’t really say no to that.
IMO JavaScript is for people who want to get things done quickly and efficiently and have their program work everywhere. Python is for people who like to think they are doing things “the right way” as if there were such a thing.
> JavaScript is more enjoyable than Python to me. You can’t really say no to that.
Indeed I can't. I can say no to "JS is more enjoyable than Python", which is what you said in your upstream comment.
> JavaScript is for people who want to get things done quickly and efficiently and have their program work everywhere
If by "everywhere" you mean "in a browser", sure. I don't see how that's related to the common definition of "everywhere", though.
> Python is for people who like to think they are doing things “the right way” as if there were such a thing.
I don't know what you mean by that.
It feels to me like JS is more for people who want to write "clever" code and Python is for people who want to write boring, more maintainable code. It doesn't help that JS has a gentler learning curve and attracts more people who just want to get things done without thinking whether those things should be done that way.