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. (No, WebAssembly is not an option. Have you ever actually tried using it?)

I don’t love its design. I think 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.