JS get's a lot of hate, but its not that janky. I much prefer a lot of things of js over python. The JS object notation is superior to python's dict notation. Also async programming in JS is way nicer.
Why should working in any language, least of all JavaScript, affect mental health - of all things? Granted there will be some frsutration, some stress and anxiety (for some quirks one has to trouble shoot and fix). Which I hope is temporary and which I know working in any language would cause to some extent or another. Rust, anyone?
Debugging in Rust is a cakewalk compared to vanilla Javascript. Maybe it's the quality of code, maybe it's the linter, maybe it's the type annotation; but errors tend to be much more clear in my experience. Rust errors are almost always semantic - JS errors could be your runtime, your interpreter, your code, your logic or even the specification of the language.
I've seen a couple pleasant JS libraries in my day, and hundreds of absolutely horrifying packages, many of which are proprietary "internal use only" that will thankfully never see the light of day. I could see how JS work would tax you mentally, especially if your superiors refuse to switch to TS.
Understood. But just one thing - like using JS isn’t the cause. If management is stupid enough to not make DX better, that would be the reason for mental-health issues for sure.
JS get's a lot of hate, but its not that janky. I much prefer a lot of things of js over python. The JS object notation is superior to python's dict notation. Also async programming in JS is way nicer.
Why should working in any language, least of all JavaScript, affect mental health - of all things? Granted there will be some frsutration, some stress and anxiety (for some quirks one has to trouble shoot and fix). Which I hope is temporary and which I know working in any language would cause to some extent or another. Rust, anyone?
Debugging in Rust is a cakewalk compared to vanilla Javascript. Maybe it's the quality of code, maybe it's the linter, maybe it's the type annotation; but errors tend to be much more clear in my experience. Rust errors are almost always semantic - JS errors could be your runtime, your interpreter, your code, your logic or even the specification of the language.
I've seen a couple pleasant JS libraries in my day, and hundreds of absolutely horrifying packages, many of which are proprietary "internal use only" that will thankfully never see the light of day. I could see how JS work would tax you mentally, especially if your superiors refuse to switch to TS.
Understood. But just one thing - like using JS isn’t the cause. If management is stupid enough to not make DX better, that would be the reason for mental-health issues for sure.