• Presi300@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 months ago

    What your favorite programming language says about you:

    JavaScript: Error: “You” is undefined

      • fer0n@lemmy.world
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        11 months ago

        I don’t know all of them, but I was talking about React being a framework, not a language.

        • SwampYankee@mander.xyz
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          11 months ago

          Hah, I kinda glossed over that one. Not sure what the downvote is about, it’s a joke. JS and PHP are the two I’m most familiar with and they’re scripting languages, not “proper” programming languages. That doesn’t make them any less serious. Anyway, React, being a library for a scripting language, is two steps removed.

          • Doc Avid Mornington@midwest.socialEnglish
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            11 months ago

            A scripting language is certainly a programming language. In fact, it can be hard to even draw a line at all. PHP is just-in-time compiled, and has static analysis tools that can catch errors that are normally considered “compile-time” - scripting language or no? Is Typescript compiled? Are JVM bytecode and WASM just very low level scripting languages? Can you write a powerful web application using BASH? What even is Lisp, in this context? “Scripting language” is a poor abstraction, really.