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.
You don't master Javascript, ever. You just become accustomed to the madness and stop caring, while sometimes doing things right.
Gotta say, ive done magical things in Javascript. NodeJS in particular can do damn near anything you set your mind to, and it doesnt give a damn if you use tab or 4 spaces.
That’s the joke
It’s implying js isn’t a programming language because web stuff isn’t real programming
Not even close.
Most software out there is not consumer facing (there is a huge amount of custom stuff inside companies of all sizes) and even in the consumer space most software nowadays resides in ... smartphones.
Unless, of course, you count HTML (literally a Markup Language, so data formatting for display not code) as programming, in which case I'll leave you to enjoy your fantasy world.
You kinda forget that for each front end you see theres at least 4 times more backend to support it.
Also there are ton of non fron facing software.
Anyway its not really a competition. No one will be offended if you are wrong or not.
The back-end functionality is still web functionality. Just because a user doesn't see all the server stuff doesn't mean it's not necessary to support a website. There are billions of websites across the world, and they almost all use some combination of back-end, front-end, database, and server code.
They do share a significant commonality, though; they are both interpreted languages, rather than compiled. Sure, you can compile them, but they are meant to be run interpreted so you can quickly and easily tweak and change things and not have to wait for compilation to see the results. In that regard they are very comparable.
Python is the connective tissue holding together library calls and some of our most advanced AI research is reliant on that. mildly concerning
If you think that's bad, don't think about how many important communications in the world happen completely verbally.
Pretty much all online service APIs (Google APIs, Facebook and so on) out there are text-based.
Granted, JSON formatted text, but still absolutelly human readable text.
The reason for that is because it's agnostic of the machine architectures (stuff like endianess) on both sides.
The really crazy stuff in banking are the old binary protocols (like EDF) from the time when bandwidth was way less than now (so, the early 90s and earlier).
You don't want to know how bad it is. A good friend is a consultant/business analyst for some salesforce-based loan software. Shit's terrifying.
I mostly meant the base level shit with text files and ridiculous APIs. Converting from one servicing system to another sounds kind of fun, though. I've always enjoyed doing horrible things to data. The most recent one I heard is there's a drag and drop visual coding tool that I'm told can't export to apex - just make calls to it.
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.
It's only JavaScript if it is from the ECMA region in Europe. Otherwise it's just sparkling java...
Since JavaScript is newer than Python, sure JS is the Python of programming languages /s