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0 pointslta4y ago0 comments

It's a bit different for JavaScript. If you don't like python or ruby or php, you can just decide not use them.

JavaScript is much harder to avoid because there's isn't really a native alternative in the browser. JavaScript is forced down our throats, liking it or not.

So yes, I personally resent js and its community for it. And I feel extremely pissed when I'm told how supposedly awesome this technology is, because I'm having an indigestion. It's not about getting a rise out of bashing, it's just the expression of an immense fatigue about this ubiquitous stack.

So there's the light trolling of other stacks, and there's js. :)

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andrew_4y ago· 1 in thread

damn. I've probably worked with 20 languages over the course of a career in as many years and I can't ever recall that kind of seething hatred for something as inanimate as a programming language. I'd suggest your rage is misguided and misplaced. Perhaps redirect that energy towards moving to a sector of the tech industry that doesn't lean on JS.

ltaOP4y ago

So... Maybe you were right about the hyperbole part. If you felt it was hatred I probably went a bit to strong haha. But I certainly don't like when you have limited or no choices about something. Also it's not an inanimate thing, there's a community of actual people building and expanding the thing, I blame them for my sufferings :p

I'm an entrepreneur of sorts so there are stuff that I can't really avoid because no one else will do them for me. Doing frontend work is part of that list. I also do a bit of "devops" freelancing and it's hard to avoid to have to fiddle with npm there as well. The size of the part of the industry where you can avoid js is shrinking by the day

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