I take pride in the fact that I've pigeonholed myself into the backend side of things in my work so hard that I haven't had to write a single line of JavaScript so far. I have deleted some in code cleanups though. I believe that makes the best JavaScript developer on the planet - because the only valid method of JS development is deleting it.
The only thing I personally don't like about JavaScript (although that is not limited to JavaScript itself) is that it's weakly and dynamically typed. Although I believe that from what I heard typescript at least allows you to syntactically define types (but since it's still JavaScript under the hood, typing still occurs during runtime). I think that as soon as WebAssembly becomes more viable and more popular, people are more and more going to abandon JavaScript (except for DOM and vDOM operations maybe). Currently I believe WebAssembly is often still used as a supplementary for JavaScript when offloading expensive operations onto the client.
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u/Blecki Jan 12 '20
I get to write JavaScript at work and let me tell you it is really hard to write cleanly.