A poem in free verse.
JavaScript is a very flawed programming language that we discuss in this blog post.
So are the overwhelming majority of other programming languages.
A large portion of JavaScript developers don’t understand or care what makes a language suck or not, nor what makes code well-crafted or not. They just code until they have something that’s not unusable, then stop.
When they write it, JavaScript sucks.
A second large portion of JavaScript developers believe JavaScript sucks. They try to expend as little effort as possible, writing as little of it as possible, as quickly as possible.
When they write it, JavaScript sucks.
A third large portion of JavaScript developers believe JavaScript sucks. They plaster over it with foreign idioms from languages they prefer, then try to forget what’s underneath.
When they write it, JavaScript sucks.
Then there are those of us who embrace JavaScript as a tool like other languages, whose results lie in respect and artful use. We find natural idioms that amplify the “good parts” and eschew the “bad parts” of the language.
When we write it, nobody cares whether JavaScript sucks.
