Don’t worry about, JS is a fine language and is used by all of the top companies. If you want to get a job as a software developer you have decent odds if you learn JS

[–] FoxBJK@midwest.social 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

As someone currently job hunting - native JS isn’t enough anymore. Everyone wants React devs. I see some posts for Vue or Angilar and sometimes even TypeScript but the vast majority want React coders now.

[–] towerful@programming.dev 8 points 2 years ago

Very true.
If you are learning JavaScript, typescript is absolutely worth learning as well.
React and Vue have some additional paradigms, but it is basically just JavaScript/typescript.
It's a lot to learn all in one step.

I guess it's like trying to learn C# and Unity all in one

[–] garyyo@lemmy.world 25 points 2 years ago (2 children)

If you don't hate a programming language you simply haven't used it enough or are delusional. Every language sucks in its own special way, js ain't special.

[–] z3n0x@feddit.de 10 points 2 years ago

cue “if those kids could read they’d be very upset”

[–] Reliant1087@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I agree with you that every language has its flaws but JS feels like it was a hodgepodge created without any design philosophy in mind. I don't use C or lisp in day to day work but I can appreciate their philosophies and power. Can't say the same about JS.

[–] ursakhiin@beehaw.org 14 points 2 years ago

JS is fine. But as with any tool it's not the best for every scenario.

The flak JS tends to get us mostly because of the rise of popularity is Node.js leading to backend JavaScript beginning commonplace. which it's overall a poor choice for backend when compared to many other languages as the strengths that JS has are more tailored to frontend.

[–] HKayn@dormi.zone 11 points 2 years ago

Don't let it get to you. This is mostly just a circlejerk by people who don't even use JS themselves.

[–] elbarto777@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Don't listen to the javascript haters.

[–] glad_cat 1 points 2 years ago

Honest answer: JS is a shitty language and I despise it. BUT you can learn a ton of stuff with that, all the features (loops, conditions, variables, etc.) that exist in other languages. You will hate JS one day too, but right now it's good to learn, and when you'll switch to other languages, you'll be happy you learned something.

So yes, JS sucks, but no, it won't be useless for your future. Keep on working, programming is really fun.