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Pi 1.0

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  1. semiquaver · · focus · HN ↗
    I know this is going to get downvoted but what drives people to use javascript of all languages to build these fundamental pieces of tooling? We have so many better options, especially now since humans aren’t writing most of the code. It’s hard to take seriously anyone that wants to make a primarily CLI tool with heavy interactivity and parallelism requirements and decides to use a joke language that happened to luck its way into prominence because of web browsers.
    1. jazzypants · · focus · HN ↗
      I think that you would have a better life if you stopped pretending JavaScript was so bad.
      1. semiquaver · · focus · HN ↗
        I have to work with it nearly every day. I’m not pretending.
        1. jazzypants · · focus · HN ↗
          Fair enough, I accept your opinion. Out of curiosity, which language do you think would have been better for the web? Visual Basic, TCL, and Python were the other main contenders in the mid '90s. Would you rather be working with one of those nearly every day? If not one of those, then what do you think would be best?
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