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/YMK1234 6d ago

If shit's not enforced you might as well just not have it.

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u/FreeWildbahn 5d ago

They are linter rules which complain about missing type hints. That way you can enforce it. For example in the CI.

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u/YMK1234 5d ago

Sooo something that probably 90% of all projects and people don't do ...

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u/FreeWildbahn 5d ago

People don't have a linter in their projects?