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  • Python is versatile
  • JavaScript is powerful
  • Ruby is elegant
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[–] [email protected] 49 points 5 months ago (23 children)

Yeah, JavaScript powerful? How?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (19 children)

good luck doing frontend development without it, but it can also do backend development

it can do everything

[–] [email protected] 32 points 5 months ago (2 children)

The thing it can do best is bewilder developers with it's strange choices

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

i wouldn't want to program in pure assembly either but asm is definitely powerful

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

I would argue that ASM isn't "powerful". It's direct. You can access advanced features of a CPUs architecture with the trade off limited portability. Sometimes it's necessary but power comes from being able to express complex control and data structures in a concise and readable amount of text.

The subjective topic of what "concise and readable" means is where the language wars come in.

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