Rust Is Eating JavaScript

Re:Rust Is Eating JavaScript by littlestymaar on Sunday February 16, 2025 @10:10AM (#43068612)

Exactly! I got my first job in Java after a few years as hobbyist programmer in other languages (mostly PHP and JavaScript but a few others too) and what struck me was that the tooling was both mandatory and painful to use.

I wasn't fond of JavaScript (In particular, I never liked dynamic typing), but when I had the opportunity to work in node.js instead of Java I took it immediately, just to avoid the pain and suffering that the Java toolchain inflicted on me.

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Re:Rust Is Eating JavaScript by FeloniousHam on Monday February 17, 2025 @10:51AM (#43080167)

Java is a language of bondage and discpline. And architectures. And myriad pointless interface definitions. And overblown class hierarchies for problems ill-suited to the OO paradigm.

I started my career in Java, and worked in it for 20 years before I really started using Javascript in anger. I didn't (and don't) like Javascript, but the freedom for prototyping was a revelation. When Typescript appeared, I fell in love.

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