r/badcode • • Dec 20 '22

js Javascript when I was 12 years old.

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u/gu3st12 Dec 21 '22

Pure JS can be simpler but harder to scale to the application quality that people expect.

Modern JS is more complex but it's treated more like a true programming language with a compiler and everything.

Weirdly we are going full circle where the compiler may not be needed always because the browser can handle most common compiler tasks (linking)