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I’ve used many many languages into production over the years, and I still can’t work out if JavaScript is an abomination to teams and maintenance like Perl and PHP, or it’s genius and should be everywhere?

… PS I know it’s already everywhere by mistake, but let’s focus :o)

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I’ve used gwt extensively and dart (not flutter) because strong typed interfaces are needed in large scale dev. But then in a world of saas mashups you end up with over engineered models and frameworks - maybe just good JS glue is the way to go now. Most teams don’t “engineer” anymore. Focus on tight mash…?

JS has improved a lot in the past 10 years yet I'll still avoid it as much as I can.

WASM was sorely needed.

JavaScript epitomizes the three core virtues of programmers: Laziness, Impatience, and Hubris.

The best mistake ever.

Crockford had it right: The good parts are great (and are all basically Scheme/Lisp). The bad parts are many, and invite fancy misuse and footguns.

I love that I can build virtually anything with JavaScript. 

I also hate that when I use Typescript on a React/Next.js project I have to deal with whatever the f React.DOMAttributes<HTMLButtonElement>.onClick?: (event: React.MouseEvent<HTMLButtonElement, MouseEvent>) is. Like what did we do??! 😭

If JS manages to fix its type system I’m honestly fine with it’s dominance continuing