Comment on Anon tries programming in Java

arc@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• jol@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  An text file with a <script> block and nothing else, containing a console log, is all you need. You already have all the boilerplate to run it in any computer. No extra dependencies, no installing anything. Literally just a notes editor app. This is a valid HTML file:

  <script>
  console.log("Hello World")
  </script>
  

  source

  • arc@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    By that logic we should all program with .bat files

    source

    • jol@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Bash and bat scripts are really useful for that reason. You’re making a bad generalization from my comment. But the premise from OP seems to be that a language’s value is how hard it is to get started.

      source
  • Lysergid@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think you forgot to pollyfill your console.log and now you have some error in some script in some callback

    source
• Seeders@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I love javascript.

  source

  • ReluctantMuskrat@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Even if you, the programmer, are a complete fucking moron, by god javascript will try to make your program run as long as possible.

    I mean it might not work as intended but it’ll run and not complain!

    source

    • Seeders@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      god damn right

      source
  • arc@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Javascript doesn’t “just work”. It’s a language originally designed to glue actions to html elements and it is fundamentally broken in ways that will be never be fixed. Weird syntax, weird type coercion, horrible base types & functions, surprises galore. Even Typescript, which is basically a precompiler, is just JS with some type checking. The only reason anyone uses either is because it is ubiquitous - people have to use it.

    source

    • Seeders@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s the greatest language on the planet.

      source
  • herrvogel@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Javascript is a beautiful language where ‘3’ - 1 = 2 but ‘3’ + 1 = ‘31’.

    source

    • Seeders@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Exactly

      source