It looks like JavaScript is the most complicated and error-prone language, that's why so many people need to talk about it on DEV. ;-)
I don't know what to think about this 🤔. And you?
Maybe everyone should just stop mixing up "language quality" and "language popularity"; furthermore, DEV is quite web-centric. Although I'm actively working on changing that, most articles here revolve around how to reinvent the wheel in $some_js_framework.
Have I mentioned that COBOL is an excellent web language too? ;-)
I love JavaScript’s story, how it was this hastily created, incredibly flawed plaything that has grown into one of the most utilized tools in existence. It was an underdog—actually, it wasn’t even in the same fight—but it has allowed so many other underdogs to break into this industry. For better or worse, I love a good backstory.
I'm Jake Cahill. Lifetime Pythonista, web scraping and automation expert. Enjoy books. Love my wife, dog, and cat, and think AI and Julia are pretty nifty
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I'm Jake Cahill. Lifetime Pythonista, web scraping and automation expert. Enjoy books. Love my wife, dog, and cat, and think AI and Julia are pretty nifty
Location
Maine, USA
Education
A Master's patient mentorship and insatiable curiosity
Kourtney is Vanilla JS because she seems to be boring as all get out. And Kim is Node because she gets more famous all the time but, other than her rabid followers, none of us really understand why or what, exactly, she has contributed to the world. 😋😋😋
I'm Jake Cahill. Lifetime Pythonista, web scraping and automation expert. Enjoy books. Love my wife, dog, and cat, and think AI and Julia are pretty nifty
Location
Maine, USA
Education
A Master's patient mentorship and insatiable curiosity
And before any of you ask, I'm married to a woman who watches the show occasionally so it's NOT creepy that I can map Kardashian sisters to JS frameworks this quickly 😐😐😐😐😐
It seems good for building network effects that DEV is starting with a concentrated topic area.
However, I now feel a bit mislead by this HeavyBit article, which was pushing DEV.to as already a destination for all developer topics, ready to immediately replace Hacker News and Reddit (and better because of better moderation / code of conduct / etc).
I hope to see this community grow in areas like containers, OS, and systems programming.
It looks like JavaScript is the most complicated and error-prone language, that's why so many people need to talk about it on DEV. ;-)
Maybe everyone should just stop mixing up "language quality" and "language popularity"; furthermore, DEV is quite web-centric. Although I'm actively working on changing that, most articles here revolve around how to reinvent the wheel in $some_js_framework.
Have I mentioned that COBOL is an excellent web language too? ;-)
I think this is somewhat true. JS has lots of issues and a complicated history, but it’s still practical as hell given its popularity.
JavaScript: Famous for being famous.
And yeah, the site is pretty web-centric.
I love JavaScript’s story, how it was this hastily created, incredibly flawed plaything that has grown into one of the most utilized tools in existence. It was an underdog—actually, it wasn’t even in the same fight—but it has allowed so many other underdogs to break into this industry. For better or worse, I love a good backstory.
I wish one day we would have a modern ES1 removing all the previous crap, and keeping the clean simple parts of the language... ooh, it's just a wish!
Well, it's actually the first (and only) Back-End and web Front-End language
An instagram influencer basically
Pf
Or a member of the Kardashian family
This definitely calls for a listicle post mapping JS libs/frameworks to members of the Kardashian family.
Kris is jQuery
Kourtney is Vanilla JS because she seems to be boring as all get out. And Kim is Node because she gets more famous all the time but, other than her rabid followers, none of us really understand why or what, exactly, she has contributed to the world. 😋😋😋
And before any of you ask, I'm married to a woman who watches the show occasionally so it's NOT creepy that I can map Kardashian sisters to JS frameworks this quickly 😐😐😐😐😐
It seems good for building network effects that DEV is starting with a concentrated topic area.
However, I now feel a bit mislead by this HeavyBit article, which was pushing DEV.to as already a destination for all developer topics, ready to immediately replace Hacker News and Reddit (and better because of better moderation / code of conduct / etc).
I hope to see this community grow in areas like containers, OS, and systems programming.
Not a big fan of JS myself, but you know there are two types of languages:
a) everyone complains about them
b) nobody is using them
And I'm perfectly happy with proving b) wrong. ;-)
Haha, that's a Bjarne Stroustrup quote right? Absolutely true though.
Yup, that's right :)
Maybe everyone should just stop mixing up "correlation" and "causation" ;-)