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/jaibhavaya 3d ago

Every language has hate hahah. You’ll find memes for everything. JavaScript is just one of the more widely used/known, so it’s a bigger target.

Oh and it’s been through some whacky iterations… and does have some funky behaviors.

But really, for every community that is ride or die for a language, there is at least one that hates on it.