I'm still mad about the inventor of JavaScript existing at all.

Oh my. I just found the JSfuck video.

Oh this sounds like my kind of entertainment...

Even if you don't count desktop applications like VSCode or Discord or whatever that are written in primarily JavaScript due to those arguably just being packed inside their own little browser engine that they ship with, still yes.

Node.js is an extremely widely used JavaScript runtime environment that people are using to write server back ends and command line utilities and god knows what else in JavaScript.

Depending on your use case, it can be fantastic.

There's good reasons why it is the world's most popular programming language (by a wide margin).

You are not, generally, going to be using it to write kernels or device drivers, though.

For me, it's the rigid and wonky virtual environments. I get why they're useful and necessary, but they're awkward to use. Like, Node just works from the working directory with no fuss and python has to be all source {venv}/bin/activate and lord help you if you need to move it.

Plus, I have never liked that the spacing is load-bearing.

Python is extremely high level and slow. Great for scripting and prototyping but you really shouldn't build any infrastructure off of it.

It also has dynamic variable typing, which depending on your use case (see above), can either be nice or a headache

When I say “build anything”, I mean it works in nearly every environment, including natively in the browser. I can write the same code on the server as in the browser as in a mobile app as in a desktop app.

React has been around, and improving, for 12 years. You can run code from the first version today. The DOM has been stable since about 1998, so anything built on it should still run today.

It is true that JavaScript libraries tend to change quickly, but that doesn’t mean old versions stop working. It’s not like the native Linux ecosystem, where you need to build on the current kernel and libraries or it won’t work, it’s more like Docker or Flatpak, where you can build your libraries into your bundle and they will keep working. That’s why websites that were built 20 years ago, with the libraries of the time, still work today.

/dev/null is the best for scalability

https://devnull-as-a-service.com/