Easy to learn, hard to master, used for things it wasn’t created for.
Yep.
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used for things it wasn’t created for
I think Python gets a point here, as it is very good at doing what it was created for.
Javascript even sucks at its stated goal.
You don't master Javascript, ever. You just become accustomed to the madness and stop caring, while sometimes doing things right.
I agree.
Gotta say, ive done magical things in Javascript. NodeJS in particular can do damn near anything you set your mind to, and it doesnt give a damn if you use tab or 4 spaces.
For real, you really can do anything there, sometimes sacrificing efficiency, but still.
used for things it wasn’t created for.
so, like 90% of all programming languages
what was the original goal of python?
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The goal for Python 3 was to be an all purpose language that the general population could use for their everyday computing tasks
What was it created for?
Looking nice and upsetting people.
That tracks
Can confirm
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Because JavaScript isn't a programming language, it's a compilation target 😅
the SAD reality!
This one triggers the entire spectrum of human emotion.
Python is the connective tissue holding together library calls and some of our most advanced AI research is reliant on that. mildly concerning
Many banking systems sync with one another with txt files so... Yeah...
If you think that's bad, don't think about how many important communications in the world happen completely verbally.
Pretty much all online service APIs (Google APIs, Facebook and so on) out there are text-based.
Granted, JSON formatted text, but still absolutelly human readable text.
The reason for that is because it's agnostic of the machine architectures (stuff like endianess) on both sides.
The really crazy stuff in banking are the old binary protocols (like EDF) from the time when bandwidth was way less than now (so, the early 90s and earlier).
O.O
...
What.
(Nobody tell him about the Cobol batch jobs that still run overnight.)
You don't want to know how bad it is. A good friend is a consultant/business analyst for some salesforce-based loan software. Shit's terrifying.
SFDC itself is written in Java but uses Javascript-esque APEX for whitelabel development?
I mostly meant the base level shit with text files and ridiculous APIs. Converting from one servicing system to another sounds kind of fun, though. I've always enjoyed doing horrible things to data. The most recent one I heard is there's a drag and drop visual coding tool that I'm told can't export to apex - just make calls to it.
Many banking systems sync with one another with txt files.
I had to do a project once with JavaScript. I did not enjoy the experience. In my opinion, a language where you need a reference to tell true from false is a bad language. So maybe JavaScript is the JavaScript of languages.
Javascript is the javascript of JavaScript
It's only JavaScript if it is from the ECMA region in Europe. Otherwise it's just sparkling java...
I'm not a programmer but I took a class in JavaScript. Unless I'm misunderstanding what you mean by reference, I don't recall that feature of the language. Can you explain?
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Tired of rage bait
That's not even good rage bait.
Rage bait would be for example if you said "they could fix everything that's wrong with PHP but Python already exists".
Since JavaScript is newer than Python, sure JS is the Python of programming languages /s
Wait let's hear him out
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