really? I drastically prefer bytearray. In all fairness my experience with JS dev is limited to exploitation of webkit, meaning I'm probably playing with the absolute nastiest of edge cases, but like... I really like python a lot more? It feels cleaner to me in a lot of ways
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Eh, I agree, Python is a much better thought-out language, especially since they (after all these years) managed to pull off a backwards-compat breaking release (Py3) while JS is stuck with all of its warts forever. UTF-16, really? No integer types? sort() sorts in string order?
The one thing JS has going for it is it's huge since it happens to be the language of the web, which means lots of time goes into optimizing the hell out of it, which means these days it's fast (but only thanks to ridiculously complex, massive, incomprehensible JIT engines).
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But, like, that happened *despite* JS being a terrible language. It's a consequence of its popularity; JS isn't popular because it's a good language, it's popular because it happened to wind up being *the* language of the web (and people are trying to use it for other things).
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my severe sleep deprived hot take is that computers are all awful and are only seeming to make the human condition worse especially in the last few years
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