Ask HN: Why is JavaScript still mocked and made fun of?

Posted by sidntrivedi on Thursday April 23, 2020 @05:47PM
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Re:Ask HN: Why is JavaScript still mocked and made fun of? by thesuperbigfrog on Thursday April 23, 2020 @06:00PM (#22962052)

The initial implementation of JavaScript was rushed and ended up with strange, seemingly broken behavior in some places.

The WAT talk (https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat) by Gary Bernhardt shows some of the JavaScript strangeness.

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Re:Ask HN: Why is JavaScript still mocked and made fun of? by ChefboyOG on Thursday April 23, 2020 @06:05PM (#22962104)

This used to be more of a thing than it is now, in my experience. Culturally, it took a while for the perception of Javascript to change from "that janky language you had to use to animate web pages" to a general purpose language on the level of Python or Ruby. Node/React/Vue/etc. have been around long enough now that I think most of that has died out, though obviously, many still have a personal distaste for the language.

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Re:Ask HN: Why is JavaScript still mocked and made fun of? by the_hoser on Thursday April 23, 2020 @06:00PM (#22962046)

“There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.”

-Bjarne Strostrup

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Re:Ask HN: Why is JavaScript still mocked and made fun of? by giffarage on Thursday April 23, 2020 @05:53PM (#22961971)

Imo it's mostly due to the sheer number of people using it. More users --> more complaints.

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Re:Ask HN: Why is JavaScript still mocked and made fun of? by sibeliuss on Thursday April 23, 2020 @06:33PM (#22962327)

With typescript growing more popular fewer have the same complaints -- things are changing

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