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by brigandish 1309 days ago
If we ignore all those pain points and ignore that we're sticking to "the good parts" and have to employ strict discipline and not rely on hundreds, if not thousands of unvetted dependencies and use typescript even though its type system has holes in it and nobody should mention the myriad build systems or varying APIs in browsers (its main target) or that its community can't come to an agreement on module formats/namespacing…

…and then I'll have no reason to dislike this language. Got it. Am I allowed to dislike the newish template literal syntax too?
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hutzlibu 1309 days ago
You are of course free to dislike anything.

But you said "hate" before, which is a bit stronger than not liking.

The only time I came close to hating a language, was when I was forced to overtake someones half assed php project.

And I still do not like the syntax and have never touched any php code ever since, but I still do not hate the language, or its designers or users. I just avoided it. But hate has the vibe of wanting to destroy something ..

And well, yes, a nice clean start of the web would not be such a bad thing - if there would be some language or plattform everyone can agree on. Which is likely not happen and will just recreate the mess we have already.

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brigandish 1308 days ago
There are degrees of hate. If we're talking about programming languages, then I hate JS, while there are languages I love. Who likes the experience of writing in Bash, for instance? It's ugly, limited, and has a series of gotchas, which is much like JS.

> hate has the vibe of wanting to destroy something

You may be right, and given half a chance…

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