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0 pointsaikah11y ago0 comments

> Javascript is a fine language if you do this.

No,it's not fine, it's a horrible language,with a few good features that saves it from being a catastrophy.hence "Good Parts".

Or we wouldnt be here talking about Flow,Typescript or others if the language was "fine". JS was clearly not designed for what we are making out of it today.

But since there is no way around Javascript in webdev,good or bad,it doesnt even matter.It exists.TC39 isnt going to fix types,so types are fixed in userland.hence "Flow".

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hnriot11y ago

nonsense. Just because people and companies have contributed new features and capabilities to the language doesn't make your point. It's not a horrible language, any more than any language. Of course it has things that aren't ideal, but it's highly expressive and if you know what you're doing it can be elegant.

gmac11y ago

Agreed. And things could have been enormously worse (hint: VBScript).

aflinik11y ago

You're criticizing the raw JS language, but that's not what most people in the industry are using. Fine, the original language design was horrible, but if you consider the typical stack used for web development (which could be any combination of transpilers like CoffeeScript/TypeScript, Flow, Promises, module systems, etc) it's not that bad.

Also we already have Strict mode; I imagine in the future it will get more and more uncompromising, so the JS subset we'll be actually using will be just fine.

mateuszf11y ago

Every language has good and bad parts.

jules11y ago

This can be used to justify any atrocity.

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