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by k_sze 2828 days ago
Just pick a better language (e.g. Python/Ruby/Groovy/C#). Period. And JavaScript was never as horrible as PHP anyway, in my opinion.

The thing is, you have more control over what language you can run on the server-side, whereas all your web browser clients run JavaScript. So it made sense to have a transpiler targeting JavaScript.
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noneucat 2828 days ago
I wasn't trying to credit the language. Just curious about the state of the ecosystem.

I had the displeasure of PHP being the first "programming language" I came across. Most of my knowledge was gleaned from w3schools and various web pages scattered around the web. I recall doing a lot of Googling while trying to figure out edge cases and such.

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vorg 2827 days ago
But mostly the language picked for a system is a well-used legacy language (e.g. Java / C / Befunge / Cobol ) chosen by a business manager.
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