Fuck JavaScript

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[–]zyxzevn🐈‍⬛ 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

"Worse is Better"
If it works just enough and free, it will be adapted as a first standard. A lot of companies have to invest a lot of work in it and this makes it even more a standard. So it becomes an endless pit of bad design that works if you keep working on it.

In the mean time, I can still run my old pascal programs with hardly any changes.
Currently I see the most future in Nim and Elixir.

[–]Vulptex[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The vast majority of languages are free. Also the proprietary solution tends to dominate first, and a free one usually overtakes it about a decade later.