What are some interesting use cases for JavaScript outside of web development that you've explored or would like to explore?
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I think JavaScript is an excellent general purpose programming language. There are some fun niches for it, too, and I’m not even going to mention web.
That’s all I’ve got time for right now, but that’s a lot of fun stuff right there.
In my 25 years of professional work, you’d think I would have gotten used to having folks make unnecessary corrections to my statements, but I regret to report that I have not.
It is impolite to advance your ideas by presenting them as polite criticism, please stop doing it. Especially when this sort of conduct is directed at women and people of color, it can send a message that you don’t think they’re not good enough, especially the part where you mention how advanced you are. These types of corrections don’t really add to the conversation except to tell the person you’re correcting that they’re wrong about something important.
I grew up programming, since I was a young child of seven. I have programmed computers as my primary time-suck since I was 12. I have never found type safety to be a primary concern.
At the end of the day, however, my remarks in the prior comment were me describing my own life experience, which was not an invitation for correction or review. I apologize for the misunderstanding, and I hope this clears things up.
Didn't mean to create this, I deleted my comment
It’s all OK. Don’t forget that we’re all learning and growing; all of us. Just as I’d ask someone to correct me if I said something wrong in French, it’s good to make sure we also correct folks when they could adjust conduct to make community more inclusive.
You’re all good my friend, and I hope you keep engaging and growing with us all.
I believe in admitting mistakes, that makes life easier to everyone.
Clearly my comment didn't have the effect I intendeded, well I delete it and do better next time.
JS is useful just about anywhere where you might want an abundance of libraries and lots of developers who understand the code.
Stuff like React Native points this out. If your team is going to be mostly made up of webdevs, sometimes it makes sense to max this out as much as possible.
I'd personally not go out of my way to use JS if it's not the case of "we already have webdevs, might as well".