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Re:Office 365 is being completely rewritten in JavaScript by redleggedfrog on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @09:04AM (#17302632)
"Pretty sure we're up to billions of technical debt created by software written in Javascript."

There, I fixed that for you. I didn't miss the boat. I've had to maintain mountains of awful code written by careless programmers in a pathetic language with a morass of constantly changing libraries for run-times (web browsers) that can't even be counted on to interpret the code the same.

Re:Office 365 is being completely rewritten in JavaScript by dkns on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @09:08AM (#17302659)
As opposed to The One Language that is perfect and doesn't incur technical debt when programs are written in it.

"There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses." - Bjarne Stroustrup