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by shrimp_emoji 1929 days ago
Emojis in READMEs are awesome.

JS is a horrible kludge that malignantly outgrew its original purpose. Incidentally, it's also the programming language sites happen to use to become unusable and abuse the user, but we'd be in the same boat if they used Python or whatever else, so the hate for JS that comes out of that is unfair.
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jzoch 1929 days ago
Its far better than it was 10 years ago - JS hate is wielded here by people who haven't used it in years. Unlike C++ the language has changed (definitely for the better). I don't even particularly care much for it but the people who will sit here and lambast it while staunchly writing C++ as if that language isn't in an even worse mess is pretty silly.

I know your take is balanced but others in HN loveeee to hate JS just because they think its what they are supposed to do.

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sam_bristow 1928 days ago
It's interesting that you chose C++ as your counter-example. It's a language that has also massively changed over the last 10 years. C++11 and later standards were a huge shift and most people would argue it's a much better language than 10 years ago.

I don't have a horse in this race though. I don't use Javascript or C++ in any meaningful capacity these days.

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