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by Yizahi 3159 days ago
I'm surprised by JavaScript results. I expected it to rival Perl for top place.
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There's so much of it out there that you don't really have to program in it as much as copy-paste in it. Your expectations probably would have been met or exceeded if people still had to actually write things in it.
I really wonder how much this is tainted by being at SO?

There's a huge JS audience there vs other sites, IME.

Additionally, I'm kind of a JS hater, but I really only hate it because it is just too often mis-used, not because it is actually bad itself.

Misused? How so? Are you referring to those that give advice with "just import lodash and use ___" or "you can do this easily in jQuery like _____"?

I find that a lot of the JS answers are pretty good, and there are many 2-3+ year old answers that are edited with ES6 updates to the answer, which is pretty amazing/nice.

I'm not saying that the advice is misused, but that JS itself is misused by most of the sites that implement it.
yeah, you would think that from the vociferous army of haters here :)