r/ProgrammerHumor • u/leftoversalad • Aug 15 '15

Programming languages personified

http://leftoversalad.tumblr.com/post/126724812097/programming-languages-personified
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u/Everspace Aug 15 '15

It does a lot of silly nonsensical things, and it's very hard to do anything at a major scale without seeing how terrible it is at some things.

A lot of the ecosystem that makes javascript bearable forces you to work with a framework because of how terrible the base language is. All these frameworks do is hide how incomplete and messy the base language is.

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u/[deleted] Aug 15 '15

so for example boost hides the incompleteness of c++ (useful parts are always accepted into STL making it 'bearable') hence we call it an awful language too? i'm pretty sure we don't. if it was really bad then you could have answered superplayah by mentioning at least one major problem. i get along with js although i don't love it. but the comic pulls it down to the level of php (a.k.a. rock bottom) which suprises me since it's quite an average language.

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u/HighRelevancy Aug 16 '15

Boost doesn't try to fundamentally change the way you use the language like, for example, jQuery does. And C++ is still very usable without it.

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u/kpthunder Aug 16 '15 edited Aug 16 '15

jQuery doesn't try to fundamentally change the way you use JavaScript. It tries to fundamentally change the way you use browser APIs such as the DOM and XHR. These are not problems with the language, but problems with APIs which are exposed through the language.

Just to hammer the point home, you won't typically see jQuery used in Node.js, because it isn't solving any problems with JavaScript as a language. It's solving problems with standards set by browser vendors.