A 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:
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.
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.
Could be worse, could be programming Javascript (or Typescript).
A 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>By that logic we should all program with .bat files
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.
I think you forgot to pollyfill your console.log and now you have some error in some script in some callback
I love javascript. Shit. Just. Works.
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!
god damn right
Javascript is a beautiful language where ‘3’ - 1 = 2 but ‘3’ + 1 = ‘31’.
Exactly
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.
It’s the greatest language on the planet.