Just a quick question...how many of you love JavaScript and why?

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Curious

As a 'mostly' Java-developer, I sometimes love to just hack away and declare objects on the go as they seem fit {because: 'I can'} without dealing with the boilerplate stuff.
Also, aggregation layers in javascript are great because of the powerful promise libraries (like Q) and because of json, which is everywhere nowadays. Also: closure's, currying,.. Overall syntax..

I hated JavaScript because of jQuery, as I learned it before Js, that shit makes things so unobvious, despite writing "shorter code", plus the syntax is 99% the source of all mistakes... : $('#something').on('shit', function(){...}); Working on a Swiss keyboard layout makes writing those special characters annoying and makes the whole code a messy thing to look at.

Then I decided to learn proper JS, I like the syntax and how things are more "obvious" (I maybe "clicked" or something) when I get errors. I don't have an exceptional level but reading about JS a lot helps to know how to write some decent JS. Not tried node or any framework, but installing a billion stuff to make it run is a quite a no go still... fatigued before being fatigued - and I don't have projects that require those frameworks yet... but I like the language in its raw form

Elm is cool as well

I dont have to compile

no

I like javascript because you can get the job done, then make it pretty and modular, without a crapload of reworking and the world burning. It's dynamic nature is only a hindrance when you don't understand/remember the quirks and stuff (such as the time i forgot 0 coerces to false while checking for a number in a ternary).
I will admit that i dont really like the myriad of competing frameworks all competing for the same thing becajse it makes it pretty fucking hard to decide your best move forward learning wise, not to mention that it makes newbies' lives harder in the long run when they decide to learn frameworks instead of the language itself.

I like it for its ability to handle the async nature of my programs plus the fact that i can code in functionnal style while still being able to share and understand my co-coders codebase

I love it because nowadays you can write the front end, back end, apps and even desktop applications in JavaScript. Thus allowing more awesome (and less awesome) stuff to be created by people who don't know native stuff. Also, the devrant apps are written in such framework.

I love how JavaScript has escaped the browser and become mountable onto so many mediums. Raspberry Pi is a good example.

JavaScript has led me back to coding, which I never thought I'd do after college! (learned C/C++ then)