On 2016-05-06, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 12:49 PM, Michael Torrie <torr...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 05/04/2016 02:59 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: >>> A year ago, Gavin Vickery decided to move away from Python and give >>> Javascript with Node.js a try. Twelve months later, he has written about his >>> experiences: >>> >>> >>> http://geekforbrains.com/post/after-a-year-of-nodejs-in-production >> >> Very interesting. Frankly Javascript sounds awful. Even on the front end. > > https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death-of-javascript > > JavaScript is terrible. Really, really bad. And because of that, it > has the potential to sweep the world.
If your reasoning is correct, it'll never be able to overtake PHP. I've never written anything over a hundred or two lines in JavaScript, but for small stuff it seems OK -- though as others have noted there are some oddly missing batteries that result in use of a lot of small external libraries for things that any C, PHP, or Python user would have expected to be in the standard library. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! I'm wearing PAMPERS!! at gmail.com -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list