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You have made an extraordinary claim, considering an enormous amount of complex, reliable software written in JS. Perhaps first you could explain what exactly makes it an unsuitable foundation for building software?

Im also curious what language do you think would be suitable instead? And whats your plan to move all the browsers and websites in the world to this new language?

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> Perhaps first you could explain what exactly makes it an unsuitable foundation for building software?

https://i.redd.it/rz3o1yibnc511.png

> And whats your plan to move all the browsers and websites in the world to this new language?

I'm not proposing this, I am saying there should have been options to begin with.

Sorry but tired old JS "gotchas" that no developer worth a damn would ever use, is not a valid reason to shit on Jacascript. Every language has stupid footguns.

> no developer worth a damn would ever use

There are a lot of junior developers across the world in different economic situations who might. To think otherwise is just arrogance. Think students, freshers, job-seekers switching industries.

In other words, if your programming language makes it easy for you to shoot yourself in the foot, then it isn't a good programming language to begin with.

Sorry but there is no perfect programming language, there isn't even one that doesn't confuse "students, freshers, job-seekers switching industries". This magical perfect programming language you seem to think exists simply doesn't exist. In fact, Javascript is far easier than most languages for people new to programming to learn. It was designed that way, and it works well in that role. Invariably, it's only people trying to be gatekeepers are the ones who try to shit on javascript, especially by citing "gotchas" which aren't even really "gotchas". People new to javascript and programming sure aren't the ones who try to shit on it.

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