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[–] lowleveldata@programming.dev -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

ah yes programming languages are jokes themselves, and not the programmers using the wrong tools for the wrong job

[–] Kryomaani@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

While true, there are some languages that are the wrong tool for every job. JS is one of them. I've dreamt of a future where web frontends switched to something sane but instead we got stuff like typescript which is like trying to erect steel beams in quicksand. For web frontends I can understand that historical reasons have lead to this but whoever came up with node thinking JS would be a great backend language has a lot of explaining to do.

[–] ParsnipWitch@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am also interested if anyone can tell me the exact time in our history when JavaScript turned from "Don't you ever use that anywhere on your websites!" into "It's basically every website".

[–] abraxas@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

It was when better sandboxing came out and the only valid complaints about javascript became invalid.

I was there. It was a good time.