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include_feed = { tag = "javascript", title = "Posts" }
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Programming in JavaScript.
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Despite my attraction to lower level programming, I sometimes find myself programming in JavaScript.
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It's a decent workhorse language that powers most of the modern web.
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Its position as The Language of the Web makes it incredibly useful to know as a modern-day programmer, because sooner or later you'll probably find yourself in a spot where you'll say "gee, I wish I had a way to cobble together a quick and dirty tool with a UI."
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It's the one language I keep coming back to, because it's the one language I cannot replace with something that follows [the Philosophy][page:tag/programming].
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(No, WebAssembly is not an option.
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Have you ever actually tried using it?)
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I don't love its design.
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I think [Lua][page:tag/lua] is a much more elegant programming language.
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But I like it for what it can do for me out of the box.
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This website purposefully avoids using JavaScript where possible though, because it would be a waste of your computer's resources.
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Plain HTML is perfectly fine for most of its functionality.
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