Comments by "xybersurfer" (@xybersurfer) on "Why Does Everyone HATE JavaScript? (Yet Still Use It?)" video.

  1.  @ThomasVWorm  no. that's too simplistic. programming languages are not neutral. some make it easier to get things wrong
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  2. if it's LISP, then where are the macros?
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  3. because it could have been so much better at serving it's purpose, that's why
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  4. because you only know JavaScript and CSS? maybe you don't know JavaScript well enough to know the bad parts? JavaScript and CSS are not completely separate. you can for example change the CSS of HTML elements using JavaScript.
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  5. i think it's about the movie Back to The Future, which is about time travel. pressing CTRL+Z (undo) is like traveling back in time
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  6. but that's kind of a symptom of a bad base language. it contains so much junk that people don't know which parts they should be using. i think that the "this" keyword was one of the worst inventions in the base language, that should never have existed
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  7. the reliability and maintainability of code, is directly affected by the quirks of the language
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  8. JavaScript is a huge improvement over PHP, but it's still terrible
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  9. what would code look like where JS was the true limiter? do you have the ability to recognize it? especially as you would probably only see things that worked out in the end
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