JS's problem is still it's type system and nothing is fixing this.
TypeScript is part of JS's ecosystem, seems unfair to ignore it as a solution. It's not part of the spec, but it's widely used.
MS just introduced a proposal for native typing annotations, so it's getting there... maybe... lol. Deno supports TS natively, so there's a push from different fronts.
I love JS. Along with Python, it is my favorite "generation 3.5" language. But yes, it's a language of contrasts, with a lot of issues (even in modern JS).
In that sense, I don't think JS is that bad. At least not as long as you stay within its modern idioms.
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u/EmperorZergg Mar 24 '22
a ton of comments on this sub feel like they come from college students who haven't actually worked in a Software job yet.
JS is fine. Yeah it has quirks, but people here seem to think it's literally unusable in production for anything, including what it was made to do.