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Re:I still love PHP and JavaScript by lucideer on Wednesday August 03, 2022 @08:55AM (#32331055)
I don't know any language that this statement isn't true about unless either:

(a) you're a true, deep expert who uses the language all day every day

(b) the docs are so poor it's not even worth having them open

Re:I still love PHP and JavaScript by CSSer on Wednesday August 03, 2022 @01:41PM (#32334724)
Go might be a contender save for a couple weird features. JS might be with a few ground rules and/or enough tooling.

I’m also willing to grant implicitly that there are tradeoffs here. Languages with small standard libraries usually have big community libraries and vice/versa.

Re:I still love PHP and JavaScript by lucideer on Wednesday August 03, 2022 @03:58PM (#32336087)
JS isn't directly comparable due to the very delineated nature of ECMA -vs- DOM/NodeJS APIs - ECMA is pretty easy to internalise but you'd be hard pressed to get by without MDN DOM or NodeJS core API docs open (unless as you say you're abstracting them with community libs as you say).

I've only used Go sparingly - I heavily relied on docs, but yeah it may have a shallow learning curve. It's certainly much saner than Python (which seems to be the other language used in my "space" for e.g. ad hoc ops tooling, etc.)