title = "#javascript" include_feed = { tag = "javascript", title = "Posts" } +++ Programming in JavaScript. --- Despite my attraction to lower level programming, I sometimes find myself programming in JavaScript. It's a decent workhorse language that powers most of the modern web. 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." 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]. (No, WebAssembly is not an option. Have you ever actually tried using it?) I don't love its design. I think [Lua][page:tag/lua] is a much more elegant programming language. But I like it for what it can do for me out of the box. --- This website purposefully avoids using JavaScript where possible though, because it would be a waste of your computer's resources. Plain HTML is perfectly fine for most of its functionality.