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Learn the pros and cons of JavaScript

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Learn the pros and cons of JavaScript

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- Now that we've seen what JavaScript can be used for and some of the characteristics of the language itself, let's take a slightly more focused look at some of the main pros and cons of JavaScript. Now, I don't think there's a single JavaScript developer out there who will claim that JavaScript is a perfect programming language. But on the flip side, whenever I hear someone claim that JavaScript is just an awful programming language, their words, not mine, I can't help but think that they just haven't really worked with it that much and they're probably just getting that opinion from some YouTube video that they watched. Now, one of the first big positive points of JavaScript, one of its pros, is its popularity. The fact is that there are just a huge number of JavaScript related job openings at companies worldwide and JavaScript itself has a very large and very active developer ecosystem. JavaScript, for the most part, is one of those languages where you can Google even the most…

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