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JavaScript is a bad choice
by kajaman on Tue 5th Feb 2013 07:51 UTC
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Obviously, it's popular and most of developers put it on their CV (not only web developers). It's hard to find a programmer who says "I don't know JavaScript".

However, JavaScript is difficult to program in *good*. It's got different paradigm of Object Orientation than most (prototype based vs. classes). It has also very little and chaotic standard library (but there are projects that fix that), and finally, the language itself is not that great in terms of design, syntax and consistency.

Don't get me wrong, if you use something like Coffeescript, and have deep knowledge on what is actualy going on, you can write good, complex apps in JavaScript. My feeling is that they chose it because it's easy for newcomers to start developing, which is a mistake, and will be a painful one. You can shoot yourself easily in the foot in JavaScript, and people will.

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