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by CaptSpify 3159 days ago
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.

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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.