Legit question from someone getting into programming now, I get that there's a meme surrounding it but I'd like to know actual concrete reasons why someone shouldn't bother learning it.
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JS and why it sucks
Luis Green
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Hunter Reyes
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Nathan Davis
See that's what I figured, I mean I'm not an expert on the matters of the tech industry in general but all I've heard about anyone is that if you want to at least be able to feed yourself while working with computers you should learn this basic bitch shit.
Charles Thompson
If you want to do frontend development then go learn it, you will be highly employable especially if you learn the meme frameworks like react or angular, combine that with backend knowledge using a language like Go and some trendy database like neo4j and you're set for a good career as a full stack developer. However web development is a depressing field to work in when you actually know your shit and prefer working on other things.
t. reluctant web developer who would rather be reverse engineering malware and finding exploits in software
Camden Fisher
Personally, I don't really like my browser to be executing all sorts of potentially malicious scripts every fucking page I go to, just because some people want to track my every movement or want to have DYNAMIC web pages with shit like infinite scroll designed for smart phones.
So from that standpoint, JS sucks.
**I've only rarely written any scripts for websites with JS, and tried doing more things with php instead, but this is a decade ago.*
Luke Young
Well right now I'm unemployed and only just started getting into this stuff, I wouldn't mind learning how to work net security stuff (since that's basically where I want to end up eventually), but I don't see myself doing that professionally as soon as I could do basic web development.
Well neither do I but you don't need to know JS to protect yourself, you do need to know JS if you want to fuck over people who don't know how to protect themselves. At least that's how I look at it, besides knowing the ways it sucks would probably make you better at not falling for it.
Owen Wright
JS is the web development language, but its leaking out into other fields e.g cryptocurrency and application development. You wouldn't bother learning it if you were pursuing other fields e.g embedded devices where low abstraction languages are king. As for the science and theory of language, there's better choices, but JS is one of the most popular languages since nearly all web browsers have interpreters for it.
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Right now web browsers are used more as an operating environment for easily downloadable applications. Some people might disagree with that and disable JS entirely, meaning your work and effort is completely null for some clients or in some cases counter-intuitive (this browser supports this, but doesn't support that), but there's enough normies that most web devs don't bother at all (just upgrade your browser to one of the big 3 goy!).
John Nelson
How is it leaking into cryptocurrency and application development? Are we talking about mobile shit or regular computer applications?
Julian Taylor
Regular computer applications. I say leaking into cryptocurrency because I've come across about 3 promising ones, and then some others while randomly browsing that were originally implemented in JS.
For example, you would expect a client software to be in whatever language (in Bitcoin's case, its C++). For ARK's desktop client, its implemented in JS.
github.com
It's a stripped out web browser used as an interpreter for the JS scripts.
Among other projects this approach is becoming common since its an easy way to do cross-platform apps.
Dylan Cooper
Wouldn't it be kind of dangerous to work cryptocurrency through something like JS? One sudden exploit and the whole thing goes up in flames.