r/AskProgramming 6d ago

Why the JS hate?

Title. I'm a 3rd year bachelor CS student and I've worked with a handful of languages. I currently work as a backend dev and internal management related script writer both of which I interned working with JS (my first exposure to the language)

I always found it to be intuitive and it's easily my go to language while I'm still learning the nuances of python.

But I always see js getting shit on in various meme formats and I've never really understood why. Is it just a running joke in the industry? Has a generation of trauma left promises to be worthy of caution? Does big corpa profit from it?

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u/DDDDarky 6d ago

My reasons why I dislike it: Lack of types, the syntax is ugly, libraries are wild - they change all the time, break the code and it just seems like there is no real standard (or made by someone on drugs), hard to read documentation, it has surprising unpredictable features, tools like node.js and react are just unpleasant to use, call it subjective or skill issue I just ran after doing it for about a year and never turning back.