James Webb Telescope will run a proprietary JS interpreter by a bankrupt company

Re:James Webb Telescope will run a proprietary JS interprete... by eitland on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @01:29PM (#19740760)

Thanks for being so calm. In hindsight I regret my comment.

Reading your comment now and rereading your comment I realize you were defending Javascript programmers, not the language. (I guess we'll have to disagree about JavaScript the language :-)

I agree we shouldn't attack programmers because of language choice. And I am happy that I pointed out that I am amazed by the JS community as it hopefully shows that I wasn't trying to attack anyone.

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Re:James Webb Telescope will run a proprietary JS interprete... by ergothus on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @01:50PM (#19740996)

Thanks for clarifying - I hope I didn't come across too defensive. It's definitely become a sensitive spot when so many are dismissive, so I might lash out at those undeserving of it.

As for the language - JS definitely has its warts and its holes. It's not a language I love, but it IS a language I greatly enjoy developing for. Then again, I thought Perl was a great language (albeit with its own warts) so my views are fairly unconventional. Definitely though, I tend to think that languages fall into a more complex graph than just "better" and "worse", or even "better at X" and "worse at X".

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