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[–] thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It was made in 10 days, its type system is a mess, its syntactic shit, and there are just better replacements out there that will never see the light of day due to how big its already gotten

[–] DryTomatoes@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Coming from other languages I find the async by default thing annoying but I fully understand it's necessary for web sites to render in real time.

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, use typescript. There's no excuse to use pure JS nowadays. It doesn't solve everything, but it for sure solves 95%+ of JS issues.

Or use WebAssembly, I think it's usable nowadays?