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Re:Office 365 is being completely rewritten in JavaScript by cm2187 on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @08:47AM (#17302501)
What creates hostility is the sentiment of being forced to use a bad language. There are many alternatives to python or php but none really to javascript (transpilers hacks apart). Webassembly might change that.

The only other language that I have seen generating as much hostility is vb6, and also I believe because some developpers found themselves forced to use it.

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Re:Office 365 is being completely rewritten in JavaScript by paulie_a on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @08:55AM (#17302562)
Also VB 6 syntax was complete shit.
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Re:Office 365 is being completely rewritten in JavaScript by cm2187 on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @09:04AM (#17302631)
Pretty much any old language has an odd and inconsistent syntax. I am getting into python now and it feels so much like doing VBA.
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Re:Office 365 is being completely rewritten in JavaScript by bitL on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @09:22AM (#17302770)
Oh yeah, just wait until during a job interview somebody complains that you aren't "pythonic" enough, i.e. don't use some weird inconsistent syntactic wart somebody learned to love.
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