• joel_anderson@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It’s missing a lot of things that people really care about (with good reason) like static typing. But I think a lot of dislike also comes from it being more of a functional programming language and not object oriented. I like it because it’s like scheme or lisp but with a C like syntax that I find easier to read. I also like that I can do dynamic stuff with websites. In some ways it’s the perfect scripting language for the web. Just as messy and unpredictable as html.

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      1 year ago

      There are “classes” (syntatic sugar over prototyping) that allow OOP in JS, so I don’t think why people would dislike it for the lack of OOP, unless they’re using ES5.

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        1 year ago

        Some would say that until you’ve played “guess whether my clone still points back to the original object” in JavaScript, you’ve never really lived.

        That said, I understand I’m supposed to start using TupeScript for that, so I’ll shut up about it.

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          Oh, yeah. When people discover shallow clone vs deep clone is when shit hits the fan. Though anyone that comes from a C background shouldn’t fall on those traps either way.