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Re:“Swift is the only language I could find with over 100 ke... by philwelch on Friday July 30, 2021 @04:57PM (#28012264)
JS is a fairly low bar to compare other programming languages to.
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Re:“Swift is the only language I could find with over 100 ke... by hpen on Saturday July 31, 2021 @01:12AM (#28015467)
The point was to compare a "simpler" language
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Re:“Swift is the only language I could find with over 100 ke... by igouy on Saturday July 31, 2021 @01:01AM (#28015432)
And used by many, so useful to compare to?
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Re:“Swift is the only language I could find with over 100 ke... by addicted on Saturday July 31, 2021 @01:08AM (#28015457)
It’s only used by many because it’s the only scripting language on the web browser, and not due to anything intrinsic to the language.

So it’s popularity tells us nothing about the language, and more about the fact that it’s the only language on the most popular platform.

So I’m not sure comparing any language to JS is useful to learn about the language.

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Re:“Swift is the only language I could find with over 100 ke... by igouy on Saturday July 31, 2021 @01:26AM (#28015528)
It’s popularity tells us many people will be able to relate to that comparison.
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Re:“Swift is the only language I could find with over 100 ke... by philwelch on Sunday August 01, 2021 @04:55PM (#28029877)
It's less useful when you realize that almost every other widely used programming language is better than JavaScript.
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