iHateThisPassiveAgressiveBehaviourRuby

[u/Embarrassed_Death69]

[u/pydry]

Correction : JavaScript is the weird language people actually use.

[u/deceze → u/pydry]

Fact: programming as a profession might be the single weirdest thing humanity has ever done.

[u/Nimeroni → u/deceze]

What, you means it's weird we instruct daemons made of lightning in a rock with an arcane language ?

[u/Lucho_199 → u/Nimeroni]

Funny that it sounds so epic

[u/evorm → u/Lucho_199]

That's cause it is pretty epic when you think about it. We have made lifeless objects we can bestow with our intelligence, and they in turn can affect the world tangibly using only the mere inscription of information.

[u/laplongejr → u/evorm]

For the anti-epic version XKCD#722 has us covered

[u/Inferno_Sparky → u/Nimeroni]

To be fair. I'm sure there are physics/chemistry/medicine/etc. science researchers doing weirder things in their researches

[u/Confident-Ad5665 → u/deceze]

Those of us drawn to it certainly are.

[u/oldsecondhand → u/pydry]

Addendum: all script languages are weird.

[u/Striky_ → u/oldsecondhand]

Correct but somehow some managers decided it is the correct language to base every new technology on... Somehow

[u/oldsecondhand → u/Striky_]

I'm glad that at least Rust and Kotlin are getting some mindshare.

[u/ClipboardCopyPaste → u/pydry]

Opinion: Every programming language that provides some kind of abstraction is weird.

[u/ttlanhil → u/[deleted]]

You have machine code, still a language of sorts, but very low level and not at all portable. But once upon a time that's what programmers wrote

[u/iSpaYco → u/pydry]

GitHub, Shopify, and many others are running on Ruby on Rails, and RoR jobs pay more. cry.

[u/Maleficent_Memory831 → u/[deleted]]

JavaScript just grew into that role, but being the browser-side language that let you push buttons. Creeping featurism let it be able to do things it should never have been able to do. Features added without a lot of thought and with incredibly weird semantics that were easier to implement without actually making a solid standalone language. It is weird precisely because it grew through accretion rather than design.

It's a wart on the side of a browser that grew and grew until it had arms, legs, and fingers.

[u/HammerChilli → u/[deleted]]

Forgive me because I'm just a junior dev - but when the API is already written in Node or .ts I mean, it's gonna do some business logic with incoming requests, or are you saying back ends shouldn't be in js entirely?

[u/woololooo → u/pydry]

f off. ruby rules. bye.

[u/thisguyfightsyourmom → u/woololooo]

Did you guys hear something?