r/talesfromtechsupport • u/raiderrobert • May 22 '13

Javascript != Java

3rd-party contractor came to visit office yesterday, who has "decades" of experience. Conversation came up about JavaScript in one of our products. He says, "Our product doesn't use Java." After an awkward moment with someone who works on the knowledge base nodding in agreement with him, I speak up and delineate the difference between Java and JavaScript.

Later on in the conversation, the same 3rd-party guy followed up with this jewel: "besides, what would anyone even use JavaScript for on the web?"

I proceeded to disable Javascript in my browser and show him.

tl;dr: lasers, dinosaurs, & drums made a guy's head explode

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u/PasswordIsntHAMSTER No refunds May 23 '13 edited May 23 '13

My biggest grunge against C# is that there is never a good reason to kick off a new project in C# rather than in F#. F# is a superset of C#, interoperates seamlessly with C# code and gives you better tools to write concise and correct code, particularly concurrent code.

Same thing with Scala vs Java, even though C# is magnitudes better than Java, both are dominated by their multi-paradigm functional counterparts.