• dreadgoat
      143•10 months ago

      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.

    • @MaximumOverflow@lemmy.ca
      94•10 months ago

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

    • @thewebroach@lemmy.world
      17•10 months ago

      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.

      • @PeWu@lemmy.ml
        7•10 months ago

        For real, you really can do anything there, sometimes sacrificing efficiency, but still.

    • HSeldon10
      15•10 months ago

      used for things it wasn’t created for.

      so, like 90% of all programming languages

      • @jerkface@lemmy.caEnglish
        24•10 months ago

        The goal for Python 3 was to be an all purpose language that the general population could use for their everyday computing tasks

      • @Bye@lemmy.worldEnglish
        20•10 months ago

        That’s the joke

        It’s implying js isn’t a programming language because web stuff isn’t real programming

          • @Aceticon@lemmy.world
            8•10 months ago

            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.

          • @SloppyPuppy@lemmy.world
            4•10 months ago

            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.

            • SokathHisEyesOpen
              3•10 months ago

              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.

      • Shaded CosmosEnglish
        10•10 months ago

        I think they meant javascript is to web dev as python is to software dev

        • @Vilian@lemmy.ca
          19•10 months ago

          it’s a 4chan post, they don’t “think” they are lawless animals, deprived from any sense of rationality

        • Zorque
          8•10 months ago

          I think it’s a 4chan post and thus intentionally dumb.

      • CheezyWeezle
        1•10 months ago

        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.

  • @garyyo@lemmy.world
    46•10 months ago

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

      • @Aceticon@lemmy.world
        10•10 months ago

        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).

        • @PsychedSy@lemmy.world
          7•10 months ago

          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.

          • funklessEnglish
            4•10 months ago

            SFDC itself is written in Java but uses Javascript-esque APEX for whitelabel development?

            • @PsychedSy@lemmy.world
              2•10 months ago

              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.

        • unsavoryEnglish
          3•10 months ago

          Many banking systems sync with one another with txt files.

  • @PeteZ@lemmy.world
    25•10 months ago

    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.

      • Skymt
        16•10 months ago

        It’s only JavaScript if it is from the ECMA region in Europe. Otherwise it’s just sparkling java…

    • LizEnglish
      4•10 months ago

      I’m not a programmer but I took a class in JavaScript. Unless I’m misunderstanding what you mean by reference, I don’t recall that feature of the language. Can you explain?

    • lemmyvoreEnglish
      17•10 months ago

      That’s not even good rage bait.

      Rage bait would be for example if you said “they could fix everything that’s wrong with PHP but Python already exists”.