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by homakov 94 days ago
why not both? JS is a pragmatic choice 100x more devs understand though.
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> 100x more devs understand though

Things programmers believe. It's interesting how some knowledge fundamentally assumed by default. For whatever reasons, the notion is widespread. You're a programmer? Therefore you must know JS, SQL, Bash and Python. In practice, what I've found after decades working with various teams - most programmers have pretty inadequate knowledge of any of these things.