Almost everything the author complains about has nothing to do with JS. The author is complaining about corporate, SaaS, ad-driven web design. It just so happens that web browsers run JavaScript.
In an alternate universe, where web browsers were designed to use Python, all of these same problems would exist.
But no, it’s fun to bag on JS because it has some quirks (as if no other languages do…), so people will use the word in the title of their article as nerd clickbait. Honestly, it gets a little old after a while.
Personally, I think JS and TS are great. JS isn’t perfect, but I’ve written in 5 programming languages professionally, at this point, and I haven’t used one that is.
I write a lot of back end services and web servers in Node.js (and Express) and it’s a great experience.
So… yeah, the modern web kind of sucks. But it’s not really the fault of JS as a language.
Exactly, even if you had no front end language at all, and just requests to backend servers for static html and CSS content, those sites would still suck because they would ship the first shitty server that made them money out the door and not care that it got overloaded or was coded garbagely.
Thank you!
Almost everything the author complains about has nothing to do with JS. The author is complaining about corporate, SaaS, ad-driven web design. It just so happens that web browsers run JavaScript.
In an alternate universe, where web browsers were designed to use Python, all of these same problems would exist.
But no, it’s fun to bag on JS because it has some quirks (as if no other languages do…), so people will use the word in the title of their article as nerd clickbait. Honestly, it gets a little old after a while.
Personally, I think JS and TS are great. JS isn’t perfect, but I’ve written in 5 programming languages professionally, at this point, and I haven’t used one that is.
I write a lot of back end services and web servers in Node.js (and Express) and it’s a great experience.
So… yeah, the modern web kind of sucks. But it’s not really the fault of JS as a language.
Well, JS is horrible, but TS is really pleasant to work with.
Exactly, even if you had no front end language at all, and just requests to backend servers for static html and CSS content, those sites would still suck because they would ship the first shitty server that made them money out the door and not care that it got overloaded or was coded garbagely.