JavaScript Flaws Debate
The cluster focuses on discussions criticizing JavaScript's quirks, gotchas, type coercion, and design flaws, while others defend it by comparing to other languages or arguing misuse isn't the language's fault.
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JavaScript's a sloppier language.
Funny, what is described as potential problems for Javascript I see as benefits.
JS isn’t any more or less broken than every other language under the sun
Are JavaScript's many flaws truly not glaringly obvious to you?
What is the fundamental flaw in JavaScript language?
The same is true of most of JavaScript's warts
Why such stupidities always occur in JavaScript code? I'm yet to see the same thing for C, Python, or Ruby.
That just fixes one of javascript's weirdnesses. There are many many others.
Yeah JavaScript has problems, so do all programming languages. JS has some particularly egregious ones, but the abuses and problems the slide complains about are not a symptom of a defect with JavaScript. They would be the same problems with any other language being used by incompetents.
A charitable interpretation would be he critizises e.g JavaScripts silent type coercion which can hide silly mistakes, compared to e.g Python which will generally throw an error in case of incompatible types.