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620hun83707yThe Internet wasn't exactly meant to have billions of devices connected to it either. Many things have been repurposed throughout the years.
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leolas952547y@theScientist typed languages are not a thing of the past, they provide a safety way to find what should be compile time errors, not runtime ones
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devios157707yJavaScript is one of the most powerful and awesome languages I know. No language is perfect and it has its quirks but to me they're forgivable because of the sheer ridiculous power it gives you.
I started programming for years with statically typed languages and when I finally discovered JavaScript it felt as though the training wheels had finally come off.
But then I've never been one to do things by the book. I always push a language, and the more it lets me do the more I want to do as I learn and use it.
Typed languages offer a few niceties and a bit of a safety net (a bit!). But when they get in the way, they get in the way HARD. And it usually amounts to "nope, you just can't do that."
Well I was sick of being told what I couldn't do. I wanted a language that told me all I COULD do.
JavaScript is such a language.
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