[hutzlibu]

As a counter point: I have simple node scripts, that serve the same purpose to me. And there was also the need to fix something 2 days ago in an 8 year old script. Opened the file, changed the code and running it again. Took 5 minutes and it just worked.

I don't use js because it is the hot new thing, but rather because it is simple. (But I avoid messy and obscure npm repositories wherever possible for example.)

[yakshaving_jgt]

> I don't use js because it is the hot new thing, but rather because it is simple.

It infamously isn't.

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat

[Zpalmtree]

Most of these are 'gotchas' that rarely happen in real code because they're all due to implicit type conversions

[AgentME]

Yeah, nothing there affects regular programs even a tenth as bad as say quoting rules and space handling affect average Bash shell scripts.

[FeistySkink]

Wouldn't shellcheck catch most of these?

[hutzlibu]

Hm, video arguments are not my take, I did not watch it (yet), but in either case this seems to be opinion.

But of course, javascript is so simple, that it is not suitable for complex problems. No (sane) person would ever claim, that it is the right language for every problem.

[yakshaving_jgt]

Are you familiar with the No True Scotsman logical fallacy?

[hutzlibu]

Yes, but I do not know, what you are trying to tell me.

[yakshaving_jgt]

I am suggesting that you are making exactly this kind of fallacious argument when you say “No (sane) person would ever claim, that it is the right language for every problem.”

[hutzlibu]

"in which one attempts to protect their universal generalization from a falsifying counterexample by excluding the counterexample improperly"

This would be the wiki definition.

But where is your falsifying counterexample?

You mean the video, which says below:

"This talk does not represent anyone's actual opinion. For a more serious take on software, try .."?

[vasergen]

People always underestimate how stable JS is. I would argue that it is more stable and backward compatible than a lot of backend languages. What is not stable in JS - is a whole ecosystem.