Maturing is realizing that js is an actually good language.
First of all, you can't avoid it. The whole web frontend runs on it, a huge share of the desktop applications use it(unfortunately, but there is no simpler option), and a huge part of the web backend uses it.
It's also used in almost any other usecase you can think of. Just look at what some of your favourite foss projects are written with. A lot of them are js/ts.
That's because it gets the job done. If we could have replaced it with something else, we would have. Dont think that big tech would sacrifice a single penny just because they like js. They would replace it to prevent future costs.
It has some decent functional programming abilities (not great, but ok) so if you write it correctly and not try to cram OOP into it, you can create some pretty robust software with it. Although something that is meant for FP is better, like Clojure.
JS is going to outlive some of us. Maybe all of us, wether we like it or not.
I think everyone should know at least some degree of JS because it is so useful.
[Sorry for not blindly shitting on js and shilling Rust or smth]
Love to see the TS and python "experts" in the comments having no idea what's going on.
Clojure is awesome and is meant to be used like this. Clojure is a Hosted language specification, meant to be implemented on different runtimes. That's why we have clojurescript, jvm clojure, babashka and jank.
Jank seems like an amazing and exciting idea to have clojure with higher performance and smaller footprint of cpp, and also it's ecosystem.
Every time I create a website, I first create it with only HTML. If it looks right and makes sense, then I will add CSS. If it looks good and works fine, then I will add JS.
I can hear ypu americanness from behind the screen darling.
Free means freedom not "no payments" it takes huge money to develop and maintain software and infrastructures like these. So they need funding to survive.
Chill out my friend.
We use FOSS and privacy respecting things to make our lives easier and more enjoyable . Don't stress yourself. If you need to do something then do it. No need to feel bad.
Something is always better than nothing. You've done so much in terms of better privacy and using FOSS so you're doing great and better than most people.
Just live your life and improve things step by step.
I hate meta and zuckerberg religiously but all of these points seemed like making a fuss about nothing to make profit.
Most things here seemed pretty normal and expected for a company that big and it's CEO.
Now I'm speculating if all of this book and suing it's writer is a psyops by meta to say "these are the worst things that they could come up with. These are as bad as it gets"
Dude I hate meta and zuckerberg religiously but all of these points seemed like making a fuss about nothing to make profit.
Most things here seemed pretty normal and expected for a company that big and it's CEO.
Now I'm speculating if all of this book and suing it's writer is a psyops by meta to say "these are the worst things that they could come up with. These are as bad as it gets"
Being great is much different from being rich/easy/fun
Greatness stems from ethics and values, the values that america was and is based upon are lying, slaughter, bullying and selfishness.
America can never be great. The ground you walk on is held by the blood and bones of the true owners of that land, and millions of others who america slaughtered and is stil slaughtering for it's own "freedom" (which doesn't exist)
Maturing is realizing that js is an actually good language. First of all, you can't avoid it. The whole web frontend runs on it, a huge share of the desktop applications use it(unfortunately, but there is no simpler option), and a huge part of the web backend uses it. It's also used in almost any other usecase you can think of. Just look at what some of your favourite foss projects are written with. A lot of them are js/ts.
That's because it gets the job done. If we could have replaced it with something else, we would have. Dont think that big tech would sacrifice a single penny just because they like js. They would replace it to prevent future costs. It has some decent functional programming abilities (not great, but ok) so if you write it correctly and not try to cram OOP into it, you can create some pretty robust software with it. Although something that is meant for FP is better, like Clojure.
JS is going to outlive some of us. Maybe all of us, wether we like it or not. I think everyone should know at least some degree of JS because it is so useful.
[Sorry for not blindly shitting on js and shilling Rust or smth]