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anyfoo ◴[] No.41898802[source]
> I’ve written a lot of JavaScript. I like JavaScript. And more importantly, I’ve built up a set of skills in understanding, optimizing, and debugging JavaScript that I’m reluctant to give up on.

It's not that hard to do the same for a less terrible language. Choose something markedly different, i.e. a low level language like rust, and you will learn a lot in the process. More so because now you can see and understand the programming world from two different vantage points. Plus, it never hurts to understand what's going on on a lower level, without an interpreter and eco-system abstracting things away so much. This can then feed back into your skills and understanding of JS.

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jampekka ◴[] No.41898940[source]
Hopefully the lot includes that writing stuff in low level languages isn't worth the pain most of the time.
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1. winwang ◴[] No.41898980[source]
Curious what you mean by "most" (I'm agnostic/unlearned on the statistics tbh). I "feel" like it doesn't happen too often when it's not either already low-level or the supposed extra performance is likely worth it.

Like, I can't imagine most people using Javascript would want to rewrite in Rust without some decent reason.