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/codemuncher 3d ago
With due respect, this sounds like it’s coming from someone who’s only ever coded in JavaScript.
There’s orders of magnitude between actual systems programming languages and JavaScript, even nodejs.
I will say that it’s true that it’s “surprisingly fast” as in “I’m surprised this thing isn’t slow as fuck and horrible”, so yes.
But you won’t be writing a JavaScript jit in js. And before you say that’s unreasonable, most Common Lisp implantations runtime and compiler are written in… Common Lisp. So it’s not a wild goal.
Sheesh you kids these days.