Programming With The lowest Common Denominator

ni2 · September 3, 2015, 3:10pm

Programming With The Lowest Common Denominator

What's the hippest programming language in 2015 that all of the fashionably dressed hungry young developers can't get enough of? Something new? Something compiled? Something fast? Something well-structured? Something maintainable? Something someone spent more than two weeks designing? No! JavaScript!

I recall many years ago when node.js was new on the scene, a contractor who wrote one of the shoddiest hackjobs of C#.NET code I've ever seen, gave me some unsolicited advice: �hey you should rewrite your application in JavaScript.� I thought he was high on bath salts. �What, the backend??� I asked incredulously. He replied now it was now possible to do so. I called him a raving lunatic, thinking no one would ever voluntarily do such a thing. ...

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Corona688 · September 3, 2015, 4:37pm

I have spent far more time fighting javascript than using it. It forces you into a very rigid interactive browser based path, as well.

If you ever need to automate anything, debug anything -- if web browser fads ever change -- if you care about performance, if you mind freezing your clients' computer -- then javascript apps are not for you.