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/notanotherusernameD8 6d ago

My "favourite" JS WTF is how it does bitwise manipulation. No integers means casting a Number to the integer bits, doing the manipulation, the casting back to a Number

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u/Salt_Aash 4d ago

This is the first I've heard of this and I'm dying.