JavaScript

“it's good-enough for practically any use case and I've been able to leverage it for web, mobile, desktop, server and games”

“The language that succeeded at delivering fully sandboxed rich client-side applications better than any other tech”

“I even enjoy coding Javascript unironically, sue me. I like making self-contained HTML5 one-file-and-offline tools for fun”

“I love JavaScript and TypeScript, but like all interpreted languages, they really do have a hard time”

“an amazing tool to learn programming as everything you need is right there in the program that's already installed”

“JavaScript for one never gave me this feeling, and I always felt that either the language, or the libraries, but something was always a struggle to overcome.”

“JavaScript is a nice backend language. It's fast, has a massive ecosystem, and many people know it well.”

“JavaScript is a dynamically typed language which makes it a good choice for explorative programming.”

“JavaScript is dynamic and supports live reload which means iterations are far faster than would be in a compiled language”

“Dynamic languages like python or JS might be faster to build, but they’re certainly not easier to maintain.”

“It's not the implementation that's the problem but giving websites compute capability without explicit permission.”

“far from simple -- JS and C++ are basically the only two programming languages where books plead with you not to use all their features”

“why is it trying to parse a number thats too big and instead of throwing it just rounds down without telling you”

“Javascript WILL interpret your bigints as Number() and round them down because they are too big without telling you!!!”

“Got a lot of things right that others copied later, and also made improvements without breaking compatibility.”

“I appreciate that you personally think JavaScript is poorly designed (I mostly agree!) but that doesn't mean it's slow.”

“The nice thing about JS is that there is not very much overhead in setting things up, debugging weird things, restarting.”

“If I could wave a magic wand to reset any programming language adoption at this point I would choose Python over Javascript.”

“JS is definitely on the “harder to optimize” side of the spectrum, leading to very complex code with a higher chance of subtle errors.”

“I find JS is one of the few languages where you can somewhat transparently profile even all of your dependencies.”

“the ease of e.g. writing plugins or having a fast feedback loop outweighs the benefits of other languages”

“I can just create an object literal and embed simple methods on them that receive the "this" pointer and use it.”

“Javascript is probably one of the most approachable functional-like languages without being dogmatically functional.”

“Once you build up intuition about how things work in JavaScript though, those sort of bugs should stop happening”

“JavaScript, in general, errs on the side of giving you some answer when you try and do something very unusual with types”

“JS is pretty fast these days, so the speed boost from WASM isn't actually that meaningful for most use cases.”

“the browser so far has been super reliable in maintaining backwards compatibility of HTML, CSS and JS for years and years.”

“JavaScript engines also are also JITted which is better than a straight interpreter but except microbenchmarks worse than compiled code.”

“I still find the development of software in a large JS system unmanageable versus old C++ development approaches”

“we would probably have stepped out of our time machine to make sure that Brendan Eich kept the Scheme-based syntax”

“designed to be "accessible" by oversimplifying things and ended up being more complicated to actually use than better tools”

“JS at the time was obviously thrown together in a huge rush as a very poorly designed landgrab during the dotcom IPO goldrush.”

“Javascript was out there first, and it was good enough, and a vast improvement over both flash and java in the browser.”

“yes, JS has function coloring, but it's not a big deal because almost the entire JS ecosystem is colored red anyway”

“JavaScript (real JS, not a JS-like language) is almost certainly very viable in a game engine nowadays.”

“Javascript actually had a pretty nice core, and an utility of being in all web browsers that no other language could replicate.”

“JS 100% respects compatibility, they even avoided some methods because some popular libraries in the past used to extend the Prototype for arrays”

“JavaScript went from "terribly browser-only language" to "much less terrible run anywhere language"”

“It’s high level enough to not lose your time in details, you have a graphical output if needed (canvas), text output, threading, parsing”

“It was designed for quickie scripts on throwaway web pages, but it's not great for anything you'd call a web app.”