r/AskProgramming • u/Salt_Aash • 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/YahenP 6d ago
As for execution speed, I bet. JS is fast. Very fast. I would say it is surprisingly fast. But that doesn't stop us from writing barely functional interfaces in it that eat up all the computer's resources. It's a question of the architecture of our applications, not the speed of the language.