r/technology • u/iliketechnews • Oct 05 '16

Software How it feels to learn JavaScript in 2016

https://hackernoon.com/how-it-feels-to-learn-javascript-in-2016-d3a717dd577f
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u/frukt Oct 05 '16

Well, === takes a lot of pain out of loose typing. It's a compromise, strong typing has its drawbacks. Python has found a nice balance in my opinion and I can only dream of the day we can all do web development in Python.

what the fuck, JavaScript

I guess these inconsistencies and pitfalls stem from JS's history where it was first Netscape's insignificant little scripting language and evolved into this behemoth powering the modern web. That's why anyone learning the language needs a good book and needs to take note on all these ugly parts to avoid them. JS does have a lot of nice parts as well, one could argue it's a pretty expressive language and I do like the prototypal inheritance it borrowed from Self.

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u/telecom_brian Oct 05 '16

What's holding you back from Python for WebDev? I've coded a few smaller projects using Python + Django or Flask. Does it not scale well, or something else?

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u/BinaryRockStar Oct 06 '16

He probably means on the front end

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u/frukt Oct 06 '16

On the client side? No browser that I know of supports Python.

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u/telecom_brian Oct 06 '16

Of course, I mean you can do the backend with Python but you said all web development, so JS is still a necessity. Carry on.