Backward compatibility with old javascript standards.
He thought javascript will go away
James Mitchell
Christopher Cooper
Monolanguage is the future. Why would you even want to use different languages on the front and back end, when you have the option to use the same language for your entire stack? Until one of you sperglords writes a browser entirely in HolyC we're gonna be using JS for a long time so you might as well embrace it.
Samuel Cook
when will it replace java and c#?
Christopher Thompson
thing is its trash so its self defeating
you are going to write in something more robust in any situation once foundations crumble
Jaxson Mitchell
but if we are going to use one lang for everything, why choosing the most niggered shit language in JavaScript?
Bentley Howard
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Jose Sullivan
what happened to this place?
Asher Gutierrez
Now that is some wishful thinking from a battered programmer.
Zachary Gomez
JavaScript's ONLY problem is its shitty type system. Prove me wrong.
Jason Reyes
Nice quote, but it doesn't change the fact that even "modern" Javascript does this:js> var n = [9, 4, 20, 50]; js> n.sort() [20, 4, 50, 9]