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Re:Today’s JavaScript, from an outsider’s perspective (2020) by hyperpallium2 on Friday May 27, 2022 @05:16AM (#31527555)
It is unique to old languages.

Young languages are easy to get started in. Ruby used to be.

Though ruby has a separate problem of breaking changes. The back-compatibility crowd can run old code (e.g. java), but at the cost of their soul.

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Re:Today’s JavaScript, from an outsider’s perspective (2020) by lelanthran on Friday May 27, 2022 @05:32AM (#31527629)
> It is unique to old languages.

Rust is a new language, and it has the same complaints above.

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