Sometimes there is a better choice than Javascript

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Doing Odin Project now and the constant shiting on JS online is sort of crushing my motivation. 😫

JS is fine. But as with any tool it's not the best for every scenario.

The flak JS tends to get us mostly because of the rise of popularity is Node.js leading to backend JavaScript beginning commonplace. which it's overall a poor choice for backend when compared to many other languages as the strengths that JS has are more tailored to frontend.

Don't let it get to you. This is mostly just a circlejerk by people who don't even use JS themselves.

Don’t worry about, JS is a fine language and is used by all of the top companies. If you want to get a job as a software developer you have decent odds if you learn JS

If you don't hate a programming language you simply haven't used it enough or are delusional. Every language sucks in its own special way, js ain't special.

cue “if those kids could read they’d be very upset”

Honest answer: JS is a shitty language and I despise it. BUT you can learn a ton of stuff with that, all the features (loops, conditions, variables, etc.) that exist in other languages. You will hate JS one day too, but right now it's good to learn, and when you'll switch to other languages, you'll be happy you learned something.

So yes, JS sucks, but no, it won't be useless for your future. Keep on working, programming is really fun.