I've been a C# developer sine early 2011 when I mainly wrote desktop applications before moving on to Silverlight for about 3 years. These days I'm a full stack web developer but I try to concentr...
Some contradictions here: "JavaScript is easy to learn and master" is followed shortly afterwards by: "JavaScript might be one of the easiest languages to get started with, but it is hard to master." So is it easy to master or hard to master?
JavaScript is a language that you either love or hate. Personally I think that it gets a huge improvement in usability by utilizing TypeScript instead and it allows you a compilation step so there is less of a chance of a nasty surprise at runtime. It's "popularity" is driven by the huge demand for web based content and the lack of competing languages so it has no real competition.
Hi Stephen, the whole article is actually based on the next statement: "JavaScript is a language that you either love or hate." Excellent points and comment with a real value. Regarding competitors and popularity... I think Python has chance, but we'll see about that.
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Some contradictions here: "JavaScript is easy to learn and master" is followed shortly afterwards by: "JavaScript might be one of the easiest languages to get started with, but it is hard to master." So is it easy to master or hard to master?
JavaScript is a language that you either love or hate. Personally I think that it gets a huge improvement in usability by utilizing TypeScript instead and it allows you a compilation step so there is less of a chance of a nasty surprise at runtime. It's "popularity" is driven by the huge demand for web based content and the lack of competing languages so it has no real competition.
Hi Stephen, the whole article is actually based on the next statement: "JavaScript is a language that you either love or hate." Excellent points and comment with a real value. Regarding competitors and popularity... I think Python has chance, but we'll see about that.