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Re:Why MIT uses Python instead of Scheme for its undergradua... by mmcnl on Saturday December 29, 2018 @06:13AM (#18783102)
This is absolutely nonsense. Modern JavaScript is powerful and actually quite elegant. Perhaps stop thinking about the crappy JavaScript people wrote >10 years ago.
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Re:Why MIT uses Python instead of Scheme for its undergradua... by gronne on Saturday December 29, 2018 @06:38AM (#18783185)
Maybe some are. There is however nothing nothing elegant about running 5 massive electron, node etc apps in your browser w. 60% code overlap grinding everything to a halt. Its not so much the language but how its being used.
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