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Stop comparing programming languages (programming.dev)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Stop comparing programming languages

Python is versatile
JavaScript is powerful
Ruby is elegant
C is essential
C++
Java is robust

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

What Crockford did was enable a lot of devs to realize there was a viable development platform built into the most prolific and open network client in the world. For that he should be commended but it should have never been taken as "this is a viable general purpose language".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

He also showed that JavaScript has more resemblance to functional programming languages rather than object oriented ones. If you try to treat it as an object oriented language like Java (like the seem to imply), you will have a bad time.

This has changed with TypeScript though.