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Re:Rust is a hard way to make a web API by kaba0 on Saturday January 16, 2021 @05:26AM (#25801366)
I think every sufficiently large community will have outliers (in both direction), and Java is huge. I have a similarly bad opinion on the average JavaScript developer (or basically every “average” developer), but it is the product of the business decisions behind projects (cheap, bad developers, with huge churn rate) more than fundamental technical one.

Nonetheless, I’m sorry for my previous overtly aggressive comments, it has no place here.

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Re:Rust is a hard way to make a web API by josephg on Saturday January 16, 2021 @05:45AM (#25801446)
> I have a similarly bad opinion on the average JavaScript developer

I write a lot of javascript for a living, and you're not wrong[1]. I think the struggle javascript has is that an extremely high percentage of javascript programmers are pretty new to programming in general. So there's an awful lot of javascript code written by unsteady hands.

If javascript is a magnet for novices, java feels like a magnet language for middle aged with kids "programming is just a job for me" indifference. I feel contempt for that mindset - but to respond in kind to your apology, I think the contempt I feel is probably reflected fear / disgust at the idea of settling. To me programming still feels like casting magic spells. I think I'm terrified of that spark some day being extinguished.

[1] I check in on this issue every year or so and it never fails to delight and horrify in equal measure: https://github.com/ChainSafe/web3.js/issues/1178

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Re:Rust is a hard way to make a web API by WClayFerguson on Saturday January 16, 2021 @03:25PM (#25805180)
I personally don't mind heated technical debates. It's unfortunate that there's so many SJW moderators hiding in their 'Safe Spaces' who think it's their job to terminate any arguments that arise. I guess they're always "on the hunt" and trigger happy.
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