• MagicShel@lemmy.zip
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    1 day ago

    I agree with your gist but…

    JS is a really good language for building frontends.

    Disagree. I think there is an entire ecosystem built out of coping with it being an awful language. That being said, the ecosystem is pretty good at adding first class features to a third rate language and your points stand. I don’t want anything to do with JS in the back end, though NodeJS isn’t entirely awful.

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      24 hours ago

      Its not the language that’s good but the web apis. Many of them iirc aren’t available in webasm.