• dreadgoat@kbin.social
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      used for things it wasn’t created for

      I think Python gets a point here, as it is very good at doing what it was created for.
      Javascript even sucks at its stated goal.

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      You don’t master Javascript, ever. You just become accustomed to the madness and stop caring, while sometimes doing things right.

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    Python is the connective tissue holding together library calls and some of our most advanced AI research is reliant on that. mildly concerning

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    I had to do a project once with JavaScript. I did not enjoy the experience. In my opinion, a language where you need a reference to tell true from false is a bad language. So maybe JavaScript is the JavaScript of languages.