Re:Modern Javascript: Everything you missed over the last 10...
by ad404b8a372f2b9 on Saturday May 15, 2021 @04:45PM
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The issue is that writing code that goes through a JS-transpiler is more complicated than just writing Javascript, unless the language you choose is Javascript-adjacent, whereas writing code that compiles to machine code is infinitely less complicated than just writing machine code.
As to your second point, that's why I put it in parentheses, of course it doesn't refute your claim but if you use as example a technology that has awful documentation because of this two-language paradigm, and leads to garbage code both at the Python stage and the Javascript stage, to me it doesn't paint a good picture of the whole concept.
It is, just as using compile-to-(or interpreted-by-a-runtime-in-)-native-code languages is a solution to “I don’t like raw x86_64 machine code for desktop applications”, even if you end up running machine code in the end.
> Also Dash is absolutely terrible, horrible documentation, horrible code.
“X is not a choice people can make” is a different claim than “One example of X is not something I personally would recommend”.