JavaScript

“It's analogous to how we use undefined and null in JS.”

“We actually already had a JavaScript API with corresponding .d.ts file for scripting inside our product”

“We intermix html, regex, js, C, and even some Haskell to get stuff done.”

“and JS for frontend”

“I've been using LLMs to generate different Python and JS tools for wrangling data for ontology engineering purposes.”

“My computer ran for about a minute then the javascript virtual machine crashed”

“With cursor, I had something displaying in a really weird way (plotting a map in js)”

“In school, after learning OOP in Java we switched to web dev and learned javascript and php.”

“When attempting to write logic using JavaScript, there were issues such as error stacks providing no useful information”

“We used this approach to great effect when we migrated a huge legacy project from Javascript to Typescript.”

“he was submitting solutions to me in JS”

“At Soundslice, we have a custom sheet-music-rendering graphics library in frontend JavaScript/Canvas.”

“compare higher performance memory safe languages to Javascript in terms of memory footprint, throughput, latency”

“bespoke PHP/MySQL/JavaScript that powered a bunch of client sites”

“even though our frontend used React and JS exclusively”

“some constructed via JS templates, some built on graphs in d3.js”

“the same utilities in Javascript - including debugging in Eclipse or the browser.”

“a frontend (JS served by an nginx image)”

“in the real world most web apps simply can't accomplish the same without JavaScript, which is why we use JavaScript.”

“then JavaScript for the longest with Rust currently as the side stack I'm learning”

“20 years of muscle memory writing bash / python / perl / awk / sql / ruby / JS / CSS selectors”

“Then I got into making JavaScript browser games.”

“make entire sites with flask, python, html+js+css, backed with SQLite db and it's amazing.”

“I'd had a hell of a time converting a bunch of Coffeescript back into JS.”

“For web we also use plain Javascript.”

“no checked exceptions in JS! ... This actually bite me in prod when an undocumented exception that we hadn't seen in over a year of uptime”

“We switched to c# and python and js/ts for new dev at some point”

“we can write the tests in JS, only worrying about the Next.js service”

“the product manager starts writing JavaScript... the SQL queries fell apart in production”

“In the past two years I've done hands on keyboard coding in Python, C#, JavaScript, and Go.”

“the irony that i work in JS/TS is not lost on me”

“my OSS code (almost 100% libs) is vanilla JS with zero deps.”

“our project probably has around 200 lines of Javascript for the different event handlers we do”

“The JavaScript we use is now much, much less.”

“I've used React, Vue, Elm, Vanilla JS, and some legacy JQuery in production over my last three years of work”

“After working with Haskell, Rust, JavaScript, and many other languages in production all I look for is simplicity.”

“I use js+ramda[0], we effectively write our services as a `pipe`”

“I just recently had to explicitly build a "raw" JS/HTML/CSS app for work”

“we have engineers writing in Python (more data heavy stuff), and engineers writing Javascript.”

“I spent a year learning how to make JavaScript games with an engine called ImpactJS to build a portfolio”

“compared to any other language I've used in prod (C#, Typescript, Javascript, and PHP)”

“The resolution for now has been using String.Prototype.normalize() with some tricks.”

“I have written C, Fortran, JavaScript, Python, and Scala for money.”

“I've been using HTML, CSS, and Javascript for more than 5 years”

“We have functions written Ruby and JavaScript where we move the vendor Gems or node_modules into a shared Lambda Layer”

“JavaScript every step of the way for 13 years now (frontend and backend)”

“How can I replace my current 48,395 LOC of Javascript + dependencies with something more maintainable?”

“the dumbest lesson possible about the intersection between JSON, JavaScript, and double-precision floating-point”

“I've written an `.indexOf() !== -1` check hundreds if not thousands of times, and I've gotten the conditional wrong enough times to actually need to revert a change in prod.”

“the only consistent thing from my five jobs over the last 7-8 years is that they've all had JavaScript”

“They can also contain JavaScript and you can use that to vary by GET parameters. A trick we use quite heavily.”

“all projects have pretty much moved to client side js + drf backend anyway”

“I learnt Rust as a JavaScript/PHP/Python programmer who needed better performance for a project”

“the only language of the 13+ I've used in production code”

“My experience across ruby, python, and js codebases”

“we focused on decreasing our JavaScript that is loading on every page, until we realized CSS cruft was blocking Rendering more than the JavaScript.”

“We switched from Javascript to Typescript over a year ago, on a fairly new project”

“we switched to Javascript, simply because it was easier to get third party developers on board with Javascript compared to Lisp”

“since we switched our project to JavaScript from Swift”

“I've been profiling my JS for years and never actually run into a mysterious problem where some important code I profiled was way way slower in prod”

“This is based on 18 years JavaScript experience 1 year TS experience.”

“As an engineer that's written a lot of (old-skool) JS, Java, Obj-C, C++, and PHP”

“I recently shipped a complex Javascript project (without types) and it is one of the few instances of my decade-old professional career”

“I've been using a JavaScript hack to avoid it for a while.”

“I still use JavaScript for some progressive-enhancement”

“I've been using one in NeoVim for a while for JavaScript and it works pretty good.”

“Because we made out calculator in JavaScript.”

“Sometimes you have to do a bit of JS for stuff that aren't designed in Elm (anymore, ie websockets) and use ports to communicate.”

“We had created a method that would run in browsers in native javascript”

“We ditched Clojure and Clojurescript for NodeJS and JavaScript, for the same reason”

“I've been given js+mongo apps by partners that I had to modify to use standard postgres before becoming responsible for herding them in prod.”

“I'm currently working on a large JS codebase that is a decade old.”

“Vanilla JS if you only need a few simple things”

“The entire code was a function that looked something like”

“We use heavy Javascript for our core libraries, VueJS and Angular for frontend”

“I had been using JavaScript regularly but not very modern”

“for Proof of Concepts I mostly use Vanilla JS”

“went back to jinja and a little JavaScript here and there.”

“Recently, I've been the exceptions cop in our Python/JS shop”

“I have JS code that was written in 2005 that I know is still running in production.”

“It's also more performant to rely on JavaScript.”

“we've been doing classless JavaScript ever since.”

“taught myself perl, php and later rails and javascript.”

“I'm a JavaScript developer, and (much to my delight) my team recently switched to a much more FP-heavy style”

“One thing that became an issue was deleting half of a word or inserting characters. Now we handle that with JavaScript.”

“I last touched JS probably more than 4 years ago, yet I have no trouble explaining this.”

“frontend I can do JavaScript, php, tie into MySQL, and learn frameworks as I go”

“we did fast sessions learning by using ES6 and react”

“whatever JS I can hack into it abusing the hell out of template/html.”

“We use mostly java, swift, and JS (Angular 2)”

“implement a UI in HTML/CSS using a JavaScript tool I wrote myself”

“The only way we can use them is through transpiling.”

“I've been developing JS for years and I've been using NPM for frontend components”

“I've been building up a little library of utilities that work with Haxe's other compilation targets - mainly JS, C++, Python, and C# for me.”

“I've chosen Python+Flask+SQL and vanilla JS, but have considered using Node and Go at various times of my coding.”

“I've worked in dynamic languages for most of my career (Python, JS, Clojure)”

“Our Elm code is about as DRY as our JavaScript code”

“Our Elm code is about as DRY as our JS code was before”

“we rewrote them as plain, no framework, no ORM, Java and Javascript.”

“Now I work in javascript and still can at least _.chain(thing).map().filter().value()”

“used javascript imagemaps for the buttons just to get it out in time.”

“We do Bitcoin and Blockchain development. Full stack JS and Go.”

“I've used ES6 classes, handlebars for templates, jquery to drop the html in”

“(the language I'm actually programming in)”

“The app is 90% JS and a little CSS”

“and a bunch of custom python, java, and javascript code.”

“I've been using both for a while now -- JS for 15 years, Python for five.”

“After trying Protobuf on a project between C# and Javascript”

“I did similar things for Python and JavaScript, as many others here did, I suppose. It's better than nothing, but it still bombs in prod”

“We migrated most of the ES6 codebase to Typescript, and it feels great.”

“my production skill set includes php, c, c++, python, ruby, erlang, scheme, javascript, scala”

“We use that sorta stuff all the time at work, passing data back and forth, to and from the core client JavaScript functions.”

“Our JavaScript is pretty minimal at the moment”

“I either use a simple bit of Javascript to replace the SVG references with PNG fallbacks”

“I've been coding for over 30 years now (Basic, ASM, C/C++, Java, Python, PHP, JS, Clojure)”

“A lot of the browser memory is used for graphics (think bitmaps), the JS-heap is only 4 MB”

“I use pure JavaScript rendering on the client side, and feature detection is not enough.”

“At my company gig we use JS but rely heavily on Underscore to address the same pain points”

“Clojure back-end + Javascript front-end.”

“I'm running through two source map steps: TypeScript to JavaScript and JavaScript to minified JavaScript.”

“We at Qbix choose Node because being web devs we already have to deal with Javascript.”

“Started with poking around in chrome developer console with quick copy pasting of code examples from stackoverflow / w3schools.”

“We have a fairly large one page webapp that looks great on iOS”

“JavaScript provides a well-known sandboxed language.”

“We eventually found that the front end was JS & the back end ended up having to be python”

“we run the global event processor on a JS timer so that it works like a game loop”

“We switched to using JavaScript and inserting the generated element as a child of `body`.”

“such as C++/Java/Javascript/Perl/Python. I found that if I use them in my work, I would become good at them”

“The technologies we use are pretty standard web dev stuff (HTML/CSS/JS and Python/Django).”

“Then JavaScript/html/css.”

“In the end I learned some .Net, some Javascript and even more about working within a large organization.”

“I have an outstanding code editor and development environments for Lisp, Scheme, Python, J, F# and JavaScript.”

“I built an intricate system that was web only, with some javascript caching, accessed over a latent connection.”

“I spent last year porting a Flash app to Javascript.”

“I'm not an expert in JavaScript but I've written a fair amount and a couple largish programs”

“I taught a new programmer in my department JavaScript and CoffeeScript.”

“The First1000 site is entirely native javascript/html5/css3. No jQuery or frameworks.”

“We use some JavaScript[1] to remind users to add us to their homescreen.”

“We keep main bits of logic on a client side in JavaScript and call Java”

“We're building a web service driven by PHP, Javascript, Elastic Search, and Redis.”

“I have been using Adobe Dreamweaver as a fancy text editor for coding Javascript”

“For the same reason we use Java, C++, Scala, Perl, Closure, Bash, JavaScript, etc...”

“trying to learn... Definitely helping to expand my mind as I work through it.”

“I've been using JS "seriously" for many years, and only decided to try CoffeeScript out in my latest project”

“And yes we do feature flags in both Javascript and C# side.”

“In production I use an intermediary step where all of my templates are actually re-processed back into raw javascript strings and served inside my minified/compressed/cached js file.”

“after many years on Java and web programming (JavaScript and now mostly Groovy and Grails)”

“I still do this when switching back from longer JS / Ruby development periods.”

“client-side models really shine when they contain a large part of your important JS business logic”

“We migrated a 3k javascript app to a 2.5k coffeescript one”

“whether to use the more optimized javascript, the new css sprites”