Programming

The Five Top Reasons to Use JavaScript

Reason #1:

The Three Big Lies About JavaScript

Every lie is two lies — the lie we tell others and the lie we tell ourselves to justify it.
~Robert Brault

What JavaScript’s Object Prototypes Aren’t

I am so sick and tired of hearing JavaScript proponents go on and on about how…

Is JavaScript the Most Common Language in the World?

JavaScript: The Next Generation

How to Fix JavaScript and Learn to Love Web Development

JavaScript is a Dysfunctional Programming Language

The Super Surrogates of JavaScript

There are at least two important things we know for certain about the popular programming language…

Samson and JavaScript

Eric Elliott and Douglas Crockford tout functional programming (or FP) and prototype-based OOP as the two “pillars” of…

The point of the article is that there really isn’t a scenario where JavaScript is “best.” The reason is because JavaScript is fundamentally a broken language. Sure, it has a large user community. Sure, it has a large ecosystem. Sure, there are lots of employment opportunities for JavaScript developers. But none of this alters the fact that…