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edmcnulty101 on Oct 23, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Show HN: I made a CMS that uses Git to store your ...

Anytime I see something that's in JavaScript that doesn't have to be, I immediately close the page.

There's literally a hundred languages you can choose.

randomguy0 on Oct 23, 2022 [–]

What makes JavaScript such a terrible fit compared to the other 100 languages you have in mind?

edmcnulty101 on Oct 24, 2022 | [–]

Async by default. Promise chains. Strange unpredictable typing. Many more strange things.

It was half ass browser language originally with improvements bolted on.

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