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by ori_b 4234 days ago
> JS the language of the future? Why? It has probably the worst gotchas of any language I've coded in, it's verbose, and weird scoping. Nor is it especially nice to optimize for/with.

You're looking at it from a technical perspective, and from a technical perspective JS is an awful language.

It may be a turd. But it's the only sandboxed-by-default, zero-install, reasonably-fast, free, preinstalled-on-every-machine turd that we have.