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Why do they keep making new languages
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this post was submitted on 04 Aug 2023
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Because people don't want to admit that JavaScript will be the only programming language in the future and that resistance is futile.
Yeah but javascript has 473 popular frameworks and counting, and the churn is immense. Your codebase becomes out of date before you've finished writing it.
And the debugging?! I'll try to finish writing this paragraph despite the uncontrollable twitching. Let's just say that javascript is the kind of language that looks at your car with a missing left front wheel and says "let's go", while your IDE whispers "Yes, but maybe just don't turn right. Certainly don't turn right fast, unless you want to of course."
Who said you need to use a framework? vanilla-js.com Yes, debugging is a pain and the language fails in many aspects and I also hate it but I also realized it is the future and everything else will fade away.
I can't believe I'm about to say this, but if JavaScript is the future, then I'm going to stick to my old fashioned COBOL.