Why so much JavaScript hate? 😓

Because Javascript hates you 😬😄

JavaScript is what it is because no one replaced it years ago, and some crazy fucker decided having JS work at the server side would be a good idea.

This unfolded a never ending mess of bullshit frameworks and libraries that have ZERO regard for resource management, they might as well be bitcoin miners, at least I’ll know what to expect.

Now before all this, JS has its flaws like any other language, and unless you understand how it works you’ll end up in quite a few pitfalls very easily.

=== and !==

nuff said!

Javascript draws HTML on the client's machine, using the client's compute resources, and makes debugging much more difficult, as the HTML is obscured in the page source.

I find it useful for producing extra graphical effects, but I'm staunchly of the opinion that the generation of dynamic content should be handled on the server side by a more robust language, and that the server should bear the processing weight.

Because type of 'Not A Number' is 'Number'

@wowotek That's not a js thing though. That behavior is defined in some standard.

@olback /s 😅

Because they haven't transitioned from vanilla to jquery yet. 😁

People hate it because others are building great things with it in all levels of the stack.

Haters gonna hate. But you'll still be cashing that paycheck as a JS Dev ;)

Because JavaScript is flawed, but we need to use it. The same reason why PHP has takes on so much hate. When you have a bad tech but no economically viable replacement... you get frustrated people. And these frustrated people go ahead, start talking about the crap, and then the "can't really code anything" crew comes along and start copy pasting all the crap into memes... and voilà!

@bahua but Javascript can handle the server side quite well. And it can scale.

People dislike JavaScript because JavaScript sucks.

@varikvalefor JS doesn't suck. You just don't understand it.

@Val-mxo You're Brendan Eich, aren't you?

@varikvalefor No. And I don't know who that is.

@Val-mxo I seriously doubt that.

@varikvalefor if you don't, that's fine.

because never made sense

People fear what they don't understand. Fear concludes Hate.