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by losteric 3705 days ago
The author also ignores what I consider to be Javascript's strongest trait: It works everywhere and does everything. Shipping JS with every browser means there is no barrier for entry.

Sure the syntax is pretty meh, the community is disorganized, performance is OK, and there are a lot of poorly written libraries out there... but it's downright amazing how much surface Javascript+Browser covers. WebGL, WebVR, WebCL, WebRTC, hell even just the out-of-the-box cross-platform UI. Install Node and you get access to all the systems stuff as well.

It's my job to write Ruby and I love the language. I also really enjoyed C++ and Python... but Javascript is now my go-to language outside of work. It's amazing, it's like it was made for hacking.
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k__ 3705 days ago
1. The JavaScript ecosystem is open

2. JavaScript does about everything

3. There are many JavaScript developers

1. and 2. are enough for me and 3. is enough for most companies.

JS is the next stage of the Web after PHP

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