JavaScript is actually fine, what's not fine is it being crammed in everywhere it doesn't belong due to sheer laziness. You want to make button do stuff on the web? JavaScript is great. You're processing business logic on the backend? just no. I just do not understand why we'd rather jump through all these hoops just to make JavaScript fit where other languages fit naturally
Forgive me because I'm just a junior dev - but when the API is already written in Node or .ts I mean, it's gonna do some business logic with incoming requests, or are you saying back ends shouldn't be in js entirely?
There was really never a real reason to use JS on the backend and it wasn't designed for it. There are tons of languages far more suited for backend. For some reason the idea of the entire codebase being in a single language appealed so much to many organizations that we continuously create weird abominations to fit a square peg in the round hole
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u/pydry 19h ago
Correction : JavaScript is the weird language people actually use.