Ya'll can thumb your nose at JS all you want. Haters gonna hate. I'm starting to question whether this HN mindset is healthy. People get trapped in this vortex of us constantly chanting about how horrible JS is, and totally ignoring all the incredible things we can do now. It's worth pushing back against this echo chamber and reminding people that you now have the power to
grant wishes on command. Someone wishes X exists, and for most values of X, if it's technology and you can shove it into a web browser, you can make X appear out of thin air. Like, within two weeks. How incredible is that? And it's
mostly due to JS, not in spite of it.
Let's put it this way. Think of your favorite language. Favorite paradigm, whatever. All the shit you hate about JS, picture the exact opposite of that. Now imagine that the web was entirely built around that.
Surprise: now everyone would hate exactly whatever you love. It would've grown all that hair and all those warts you currently despise about JS. It's what the world does.
So when people knock on JS, it's getting much harder to take this stuff seriously. I've been a dev for over a decade and have been down a dozen rabbit holes, from C++ template metaprogramming to .NET nonsense to elisp verbosity to hardcore functional + immutable paradigms. Loved all of them, each in their own way. What we have now with JS is simply incredible from a raw "get shit done" perspective.
Let's put it this way. Think of your favorite language. Favorite paradigm, whatever. All the shit you hate about JS, picture the exact opposite of that. Now imagine that the web was entirely built around that.
Surprise: now everyone would hate exactly whatever you love. It would've grown all that hair and all those warts you currently despise about JS. It's what the world does.
So when people knock on JS, it's getting much harder to take this stuff seriously. I've been a dev for over a decade and have been down a dozen rabbit holes, from C++ template metaprogramming to .NET nonsense to elisp verbosity to hardcore functional + immutable paradigms. Loved all of them, each in their own way. What we have now with JS is simply incredible from a raw "get shit done" perspective.