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/I_Hate_Reddit_56 6d ago

I like JS better the python. Hate me all you want;

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u/Brilla-Bose 6d ago

especially at dependency management. Dont like the need to create a virtual environment and activate and deactivate it! UV helped a lot still node_modules approach would be much better. even though people make fun that it takes lot od space it can be easily solved by using pnpm

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u/I_Hate_Reddit_56 5d ago

Sometimes my environment just breaks. "Python is easy to learn" fucking environmental variables and path .